Enlightenment Thinkers

Which Enlightenment thinker produced plays and poems, as well as historical and philosophical essays?

• Hobbes

• Locke

• Voltaire

• Kant

The concept of individualism was most central to the political ideas of

• Hobbes

• Locke

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

A common theme among Enlightenment thinkers was

• faith in traditional religious beliefs

• a belief in the inherent goodness of humanity

• a desire to improve society

• society needs to be controlled

________believed that without government, people would fight each other all the time.

• Hobbes

• Diderot

• Kant

• Locke

American's used _________________'s idea of separation of powers to write the US Constitution. 

• Rousseau

• Locke

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

According to John Locke, people are born with three natural rights which are

• Life, liberty, and death

• Life, liberty, and property

• Life, death, and property

• Life, liberty, and justice for all

Which Enlightenment philosopher argued that people have the right to abolish their government and create a new one?

• Voltaire

• Montesquieu

• Jeffereson

• Locke

Thomas Hobbes believed 

• strong rulers should govern people

• rights of individuals should not be given up in exchange for law and order

• people were not naturally aggressive

• that conflict was not a normal part of human nature

In Rousseau’s ideal society,

• rulers should impose laws on society

• Rulers should make all the laws

• people should be able to vote on the laws they must follow

• people should obey all laws imposed on them by rulers.

Denis Diderot spent much of his career spreading his ideas even further. Diderot was the editor of the

• Candide

• Spirit of the Laws

• Declaration of Independence

• Encyclopédie