Enlightenment 🙇

Locke believed that a governments powers _____

People

The enlightenment gave rise to new

Political ideas and optimistic faith in the future. Which also encouraged secular attitudes in society.

Kant

Write about how people could understand the world around us

Rousseau

He supported democracy and said people should vote on laws and not just except them

John Locke

A British philosopher whose ideas about politics and human nature had a tremendous influence on the founders of the US government. Believed people are born with natural rights and that they can't be taken away. His ideas were the beginning of a modern democracy.

Thomas Hobbes

A British political scientist. Published the Leviathan in which you discuss the need for a social contract. Supported a strong government over individual rights.

Denis Diderot

A French philosophe who created the (encyclopedie) Encyclopedia, a collection of articles on many different topics and art and science. Took him 20 years.

Baron De Montesquieu

A French political philosopher who was part of the enlightenment. Wrote that the way to government was for it to include three branches executive, legislative, and judicial.

The Enlightenment was

A direct outgrowth of the scientific revolution and was influenced by the Renaissance and Reformation as well.

Voltaire

A leading writer and philosopher. Many of his books reflected his belief that science and reason were superior to religion and explaining the events of the world. Favored religious tolerance and speech. Supported the separation of church and state.

Jean-Jaques Rousseau

A prominent French philosopher whose ideas inspired the leaders of the French Revolution. Wrote the social contract. One of the central ideas was humans are good by nature but society ruins it.

Another key figure in the British Enlightenment was the Scottish philosopher

Adam Smith

The Enlightenment is also known as ______ ___ _____.

Age of Reason

Enlightenment

And intellectual movement of the 18th century that applied scientific method to the study of society and government.

Locke

Believed that people were born with natural rights- life, liberty, and land

Immanuel Kant

Considered one of the greatest philosophers of all time. Believed that true knowledge was based on a combination of senses,experiences, and reason.

Voltaire

Criticize humorously and wrote in favor of religious tolerance and freedom of speech

Scientific revolution - Causes - innovations in new science and technology

Effects - application in these ideas began in the enlightenment

Study of Greeks and Romans - Causes- people began to study Greek democracy and Roman Republic

Effects - ideas began to spread about government and it's effect

In the 1700s the center of the enlightenment shifted to

France

First major thinkers in the enlightenment were from

Great Britain

Montesquieu

Had the three branches legislative,executive, and judicial, separation of powers, and checks and balances.

____ believed that without government people would fight each other all the time

Hobbes

Renaissance- Cause-people started to question the ways of thinking

Humanism, individualism, etc. began to contradict the teachings of the church.

Two of the most important enlightenment thinkers were

John Locke and Thomas Hobbes

Americans used ______'s ideas to write the US Constitution.

Montesquieu

Philosophers in the enlightenment wanted to use _____ in all areas of life

Reason

The three major parts of the enlightenment:

Relativism-the belief that different things are true, right, etc., for different people at different times. Rationalism-the study of the nature of knowledge, reality, and existence; reason for everything Individualism-one of the major ideas of the enlightenment; stresses them moral worth of each person

Enlightenment thinkers and theories inspired _____.

The French Revolution, the American revolution, and other revolutions of the 1800's

Hobbes

Wanted a strong government over individual rights

Diderot

Wrote the Encyclopedia