APWH Enlightenment 5.1

The Enlightenment emphasized ____ over tradition and ____ over community values.

• reason; individualism

• religion; inspiration

• philosophy; New World influences

• social science; independence

The Enlightenment made religion

• less pervasive in society.

• disappear from society.

• more important in society.

What were the two main goals of the revolutions caused by new ideas?

• independence from colonial power

• constitutional representation

• equality of all people

• increased trade

feeling of intense loyalty to others who share one's language and culture

• nationalism

• empiricism

• conservatism

• socialism

• deism

belief that knowledge comes from sensed experience

• nationalism

• empiricism

• conservatism

• socialism

• deism

Thomas Hobbes

• people couldn't be trusted, they were nasty

• people had natural rights

• government should have separate branches

• argued for religious and civil liberty

John Locke

• people couldn't be trusted, they were nasty

• people had natural rights

• government should have separate branches

• argued for religious and civil liberty

Montesquieu

• people couldn't be trusted, they were nasty

• people had natural rights

• government should have separate branches

• argued for religious and civil liberty

Voltaire

• people couldn't be trusted, they were nasty

• people had natural rights

• government should have separate branches

• argued for religious and civil liberty

belief that a divinity set the universe in motion but does not interfere

• nationalism

• empiricism

• conservatism

• socialism

• deism