The Age of Enlightenment

What best describes Natural Rights?

• Who you are in Nature

• Rights you are born with.

• Rights the Government gives you

• Rights yo Mama gives you.

Which is an example of how Enlightenment thinkers base science on?

• The Scientific Method

• Old texts from Ancient Greece

• Technology from the Middle Ages

• Religious Superstition

The Enlightenment emphasized what?

• light bulbs, fire arms, and cotton socks

• religious superstition to explain the origins of the Universe.

• reason, science, and individual thinking.

• getting your hair done at salons.

Enlightenment thinkers used Salons as what?

• Gathering rooms for discussing ideas.

• Establishment to get their hair done.

• A place to listen to music.

• Small time theater.

John Locke believed your natural rights were what?

• Accumulate power

• Life, liberty, and property

• To be ruled.

• People are selfish and will constantly be at war

What is the definition of state of nature?

• How are environment influences us

• How we act in the wild

• The state/ condition of humans when they are born

• Why our community has such an effect on us

What is a Monarchy

• Government ruled by a royal family and power is given to one ruler

• Government uses voting to create laws

• Government ruled by a religious institution

• People who do not have a government and simply help each other

What did Thomas Hobbes believed humans state of nature was?

• Having no rules and no one in charge

• People are terrified of each other and avoid conflict at all cost

• People are naturally good, but become corrupted by society

• People are selfish and will constantly be at war

Under Hobbes philosophy how are your natural right protected?

• Natural rights would be protected by the Church

• Natural rights would be protected by a powerful ruler

• Natural rights would be protected by the citizens

• Natural rights would be protected by a group of representatives

What is agreed to in John Locke's Social Contract?

• The Government and Society will protect each other

• Society will give up liberty and property to the Government for protection

• Society has only the rights given to them by the government

• Society does not need a government