Enlightenment (Quiz Study Aid)

To think in a logical way

• Age of Enlightenment

• Reason

• Analyze

• Philosopher

• Absolutism

A person who studies ideas about wisdom, knowledge, truth and nature and meaning of life.

• Age of Enlightenment

• Reason

• Analyze

• Philosopher

• Absolutism

A body of unchanging moral principles regarded as a basis for all human conduct.

• Age of Enlightenment

• Reason

• Analyze

• Philosopher

• Natural Law

A political system in which a ruler has total power

• Age of Enlightenment

• Reason

• Analyze

• Philosopher

• Absolutism

To study something closely and carefully

• Age of Enlightenment

• Reason

• Analyze

• Philosopher

• absolutism

a period of time in which a European philosophical movement developed, based on reason and experience rather than on traditional thinking

• Age of Enlightenment

• Reason

• Analyze

• Philosopher

• absolutism

During the age of Enlightenment, educated people began to use reason to uncover error and show truth.

• True

• False

The absolute monarchs SHARED power with a parliament

• True

• False

French thinkers believe in individual freedom and supported reason.

• True

• False

A social contract is an agreement between

• the nobility and their parliament

• the nobility and their leaders

• the people and their government

• the people and the nobility