Enlightenment Review

Hobbes advocated for

• separation of powers

• popular sovereignty

• a powerful sovereign

• the English Bill of Rights

Locke's attitude towards the social contract

• people should yield to a powerful ruler

• popular sovereignty

• direct democracy

• parliamentary rule

Voltaire advocated for

• civil liberties & civil rights

• absolute monarchy

• the divine right of kings

• establishment of state religion

Diderot spread Enlightenment ideas by

• collaborating with the Catholic Church

• travelling around the world

• hosting salons

• publishing the ideas of a variety of authors

Montesquieu advocated for

• the divine right of kings

• direct elections of presidents

• separation of powers

• the merging of church and state

Rousseau's view of the social contract was that

• women should gain the right to vote

• direct democracy would promote equality

• representative democracy was most practical

• government should hold power over the governed

Mary Wollstonecraft advocated for

• women's right to vote

• equal pay for equal work

• separate schools for women

• girls education and women to work as doctors & politicians

Astell believed in all of the following EXCEPT:

• Women paid too much attention to appearances

• Women should focus on education separately from men

• Women should use politics to expand their rights beyond those of men

• Women should meditate, read, reflect, and pursue emotional self-control

Cavendish could best be described as

• the first female English Monarch

• the first women elected to Parliament

• famous mathematician and university professor

• prolific writer and early advocate of women's rights

Salons were places where

• bourgeoisie and the wealthy gathered to discuss Enlightenment ideas

• working class people advocated for voting rights

• Enlightenment philosophers invited members of Parliament to discuss politics

• Members of the Catholic Church met to challenge Enlightenment ideas