Enlightenment

What is another name for the Enlightenment?

• The Age of Reason
• The Age of Great Philosophers
• The Age of Religion
• The Age of Revolution

Natural Rights

• Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
• Life, Liberty, and Property
• Freedom
• Rights to say what we want, when we want to.

The Enlightenment is

• a time of rebirth
• a time when science ruled
• a time with people used reason and logic to explain the world
• a time when technology ruled

Which Enlightenment philosopher believed we needed a strong, central ruler?

• Hobbes
• Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau

How did Hobbes sum up people's quality of life in a state of nature?

• life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
• poor, nasty, brutish, and short
• fulfilling, long-lived, philosophical, and introspective
• scared, hungry, lonely, and cold

According to John Locke, why are governments created?

• God gives monarchs a divine right to rule over their people
• People are naturally selfish and need a strong ruler to create order
• People set up governments to protect their lives and property
• Civil government must be established to offset the power of the church

Montesquieu believed that the best form of government would have

• Direct democracy in which every man voted directly
• A intelligent monarchy
• Three branches that would check and balance each other
• No influence on the economy

Enlightenment philosopher who believed men and women should be equal

• Voltaire
• Denis Diderot
• Mary Wollstonecraft
• Adam Smith

Why is it better to be feared than loved if you cannot have them both?

• Love is fickle

• A ruler can control the fears of his subjects more than their love

• Love fades

• Love is too emotional

Machiavelli's best-known book is _.

• The Prince

• Leviathan

• The Hobbit

• Game of Thrones