Enlightenment Thinker

The Enlightenment influenced people to find answers through what two ways?

• Reason/Discovery

• Reason/Scientific Method

• Scientific Method/Observations

• Observations/Logic

The rights of the accused and no cruel and unusual punishment were championed by

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

• Beccaria

• Hobbes

Enlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things?

• power and privilege

• money and fame

• good looks and charm

• reason and logic

Enlightenment philosopher who did not agree with censorship.

• Voltaire

• Denis Diderot

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Adam Smith

Enlightenment philosopher who believed people had natural rights of life, liberty, and property.

• John Locke

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

Enlightenment philosopher who believed to limit government, that it should be divided into separate branches that shared power.

• John Locke

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

Enlightenment philosopher who believed people were born good, but society corrupted them.  

• John Locke

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

Enlightenment philosophers believe that if government abuses power the people should change it.

• True

• False

According to John Locke, why are governments created?

• God gives monarchs a divine right to rule over their people

• People are naturally selfish and need a strong ruler to create order

• People set up governments to protect their lives and property

• Civil government must be established to offset the power of the church

Most Enlightenment thinkers were speaking out against

• Democracy

• Absolute Monarchy