Enlightenment Practice

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

How did Hobbes view human nature?

• We are inquisitive and industrious.

• We are naturally selfish and quick to fight.

• We are naturally ignorant

• We are naturally kind and helpful to others

Enlightenment philosophers believe that if government abuses power the people should change it.

• True
• False

Locke believed that a government's power came from its ___________________.

• A. army
• B. power
• C. people
• D. science

. . . reason, which is that law teaches all mankind, who would but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

John Locke, Two Treatises on Civil Government, 1689

Which concept of the Enlightenment would the passage most likely support?

• Truth can be discovered through reasoning and logic.

• Humankind can and should improve over time.

• People have a right to equality and freedom.

• What is natural is also reasonable.

The US has a written constitution, this characteristic is one of a:

• Limited Government
• Unlimited Government

Which of the following best explains the effect of the Scientific Revolution on traditional religious beliefs?

• People now looked to religion to explain the world around them.
• People now looked to their kings to explain the world around them.
• People used reason and logic to explain the world
• Momney makes the world go round

Enlightenment thinkers and theories inspired

• A. the French Revolution
• B. the American Revolution
• C. other revolutions of the 1800s
• D. all of the above

You are born with _________________ that can't be taken away; life, liberty, property

• A. philosophe
• B. natural rights
• C. separation of power
• D. checks and balances