Enlightenment/Scientific Revolution

Enlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things?

• power and privilege

• money and fame

• good looks and charm

• reason and logic

Enlightenment philosopher who believed people had natural rights of life, liberty, and property.

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

Enlightenment philosopher who believed to limit government, that it should be divided into separate branches that shared power.

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

How did Hobbes view human nature?

• We are inquisitive and industrious.
• We are naturally selfish and quick to fight.
• We are naturally altruistic and usually willing to compromise.
• We are born a 'blank slate', and we develop differently according to our life's experiences..

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

The ability of one branch of government to limit the power of the other is called ___.

• a natural law
• checks and balances
• a social contract
• laissez-faire

An agreement between people and the government to give up some rights for safety and protection

• Philosophers
• Democracy
• Social Contract
• Divine Right of Kings

Voltaire was a big believer in which of the following?

• Freedom of Speech
• People are born wicked
• People are born free and equal
• The social contract

Wrote the book, Leviathan, during the English Civil War

• Hobbes
• Rousseau
• Montesquieu
• Locke

A book that Montesquieu wrote was entitled

• The Social Contract
• Two Treatises of Government
• On the Spirit of the Laws
• A Vindication of the Rights of Women