Enlightenment Vocab

Intellectual movement in Europe known as the Age of Reason.

• Enlightenment

• John Locke

• Philosophes

• Voltaire

Philosopher who believed that people had three natural rights. The rights were life, liberty, and property.

• John Locke

• Voltaire

• Montesquieu

• Thomas Hobbes

Writer who fought for tolerance, religious freedom, reason, and freedom of speech.

• John Locke

• Voltaire

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

Enlightenment thinker who was concerned with human freedom. He wanted to create a society in which all people were equal.

• Rousseau

• Thomas Hobbes

• Voltaire

• John Locke

French writer who was concerned with government and political liberty. He wrote about separation of powers in the government.

• Montesquieu

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Voltaire

English philosopher who focused on social contract theory

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Voltaire

• Montesquieu

The division of power among branches of government

• Separation of Powers

• Social Contract

• Two Treatises of Government

• Natural Rights

An agreement in which people give power to a government in return for its protections.

• Social Contract

• Natural Rights

• Separation of Powers

• Encyclopedia

Rights that belong to people and can not be taken away or denied.

• Natural Rights

• Separation of Powers

• Social Contract

• Social Network

A group of thinkers and writers in France during the 1700s (18th Century).

• Philosophes

• Candides

• Philanthropic

• Paleolithic