The Enlightenment

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What is an agreement among people to cooperate for social benefits?

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Social contract

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The idea that individuals and governments should make decisions based on clear reasoning rather than superstition or tradition is called

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rationalism

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____________________ believed that people were not born good or evil, but that life experience determined their character.

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John Locke

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___________________ believed that people were born naturally evil and selfish.

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Thomas Hobbes

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Locke believed that the purpose of government was to protect people's __________________ ____________________.

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natural rights

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This Enlightenment thinker advocated for free speech and religious tolerance and supported the separation of Church and state.

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Voltaire

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This Enlightenment thinker advocated for a separation of power and three branches of government.

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Montesquieu

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This Enlightenment thinker believed that the only way that people could get back to the goodness that they are born with is to get close to nature.

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Rousseau