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Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
In Rousseau's The Social Contract, he expressed his belief that
a child was a small adult with all the same abilities and obligations.
the individual's will is the most important.
government was necessary to protect the rights of its citizens, but may be overthrown.
government was an evil that should be totally eliminated.
The Philosophes particularly admired England because of
the continued success of its mercantile empire.
its constitutional monarchy, freedom of speech, and policy of religious toleration.
the deistic position of the Church of England.
the literary genius of Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Fielding.
The life and career of Cesare Beccaria was dedicated to the idea that
the only reason for punishment was to prevent future crimes and should not include inhumane treatment.
human progress would result from a completely new scientific method.
the philosophes were atheists and should be persecuted as heretics.
the laws ought to be reformed to protect middle class private property
Who believed Christianity, Judaism and Islam were 3 versions of the same truth?
Denis Diderot.
Immanuel Kant.
Gotthold Lessing.
Voltaire.
Which of the following encouraged the spread of Enlightenment ideas?
Salons
the book trade.
Masonic Lodges
all of these.
Diderot's most famous contribution to the Enlightenment's battle against religious fanaticism, intolerance, was his
28-volume Encyclopedia compiling articles by many influential philosophes.
great play "Is Rome Burning?"
autobiography published in French.
biography of Newton, "the greatest European."
For the Philosophes, an important implication of the concept of a tabula rasa discussed in Essay Concerning Human Understanding was
its emphasis on political and economic liberalism.
that private property was the foundation of all legitimate government.
that environment and education determines all social progress.
that all humans are equal in natural and all other rights.
The French philosophes
flourished in an atmosphere of government support.
sought no extension of Enlightenment to other disciplines.
supported state censorship of ideas contrary to their own.
were free thinkers unhampered by the constraints of religion or doctrine.
Deism was based on
the divinity of Jesus as prime mover of the rational universe.
the idea of God as a divine clock-maker who doesn’t show interest in the world.
God answering prayers directed to him in song.
the denial of the existence of a Supreme Being.
In the Spirit of the Laws, Baron de Montesquieu argued
that the government that governs least governs best.
that all political institutions ought to conform to environmental conditions.
in favor of the separation and balancing of the powers of government.
that Christianity was responsible for the fall of the Roman Empire.
