Enlightenment Thinkers

What is the state of nature?

• a country lacking a population

• the life people lived before society and government

• the evolutionary theory of government

• the life people lived after government was created

What is the social contract?

• an agreement to take anything a person desires

• an agreement to buy something

• an agreement to overcome the state of nature and create a government

• the life people lived before government and society existed

What major work did Thomas Hobbes publish?

• Leviathan

• On Democracy

• Two Treatises of Government

• On Liberty

Select all of the following that applies to Hobbes' state of nature.

• Everyone has a right to everything

• No art or inventions

• Constant War

• Peace and harmony

What did Hobbes say about the sovereign (Leviathan)?

• The sovereign should have limited power.

• The sovereign should have checks and balances.

• The sovereign should be elected

• The sovereign should have all authority to ensure peace.

Locke says that man is born as ________

• selfish, brutish, and mean

• naturally good

• a blank slate

• an animal

According to Locke, what is the nature of the social contract?

• people give up some freedom, and in return the gov't protects individual's rights

• people give up all freedom to an all-powerful ruler

• people give up all freedom and their rights for safety

• people exist in constant war after the social war

Locke says that citizens may revolt if government violates natural rights.

• True

• False

Hobbes says that citizens can revolt if the sovereign violates an individual's natural rights.

• True

• Flase

Select the THREE natural rights Locke identified.

• Life

• Services

• Liberty

• Property