Enlightenment

The Enlightenment is

• a time of rebirth
• a time when science ruled
• a time with people used reason and logic to explain the world
• a time when technology ruled

Most Enlightenment thinkers were speaking out against

• Democracy
• Absolute Monarchy

Natural Rights

• Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
• Life, Liberty, and Property
• Freedom
• Rights to say what we want, when we want to.

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

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

Enlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things?

• power and privilege
• money and fame
• good looks and charm
• reason and logic

 In what way did Enlightenment philosophers reflect the central ideas of both Greek democracy and Roman republicanism?

• A) They taught that rule by an elite class of nobles is necessary for running a government. 
• B) They thought government should represent the will of its citizens. 
• C) They argued that a merit-based system is the best method for selecting government officials. 
• D) They felt that rule by a strong central leader is the only way to govern effectively.

Philosophers of the Enlightenment wanted to use __________ in all areas of life.

• A. government
• B. economics
• C. politics
• D. reason

Which of the following would be another good name for the Enlightenment?

• The Age of Reason

• The Age of Great Philosophers

• The Age of Religion

• The Age of Revolution

The idea that government power comes from the people.

• natural rights

• social contract

• consent of the governed

• salons

A right, such as life and liberty, that a person is born wth

• divine right

• philosophes

• natural rights

• contract