The Enlightenment APWH

Believed people exist in a primitive "state of nature" and consent to government for self-preservation

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• Hobbes

• Locke

Believed man was born with natural rights to life, liberty, and property

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Hobbes

• Locke

Believed people were born good and corrupted by society

• Voltaire

• Hobbes

• Locke

• Rousseau

Believed religious tolerance and free speech should triumph over religious fanaticism and censorship

• Voltaire

• Hobbes

• Locke

• Rousseau

Believed the best government has a separation of powers with checks and balances

• Hobbes

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

Published Leviathan in 1651

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

Wrote The Social Contract (1763) and Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (1754)

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Locke

Wrote Two Treatises on Government, biggest influence on the American Declaration of Independence

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• Hobbes

• Locke

Which was NOT a major belief of the Enlightenment?

• Natural rights

• Natural law

• Divine right of kings

• Social contract

The Enlightenment believed in the possibility of ______ through reason

• nobility

• inequality

• progress

• science