Ch 7: Age Of Enlightenment

Question 0

Enlightenment

Answer 0

Intellectual and cultural movement based on reason and progress

Question 1

Natural law

Answer 1

Just like there is a law of gravity, there must also be a law of morals
not emotional
universal

Question 2

John Locke

Answer 2

Wrote two treatises of government
humans have gift of reason
humans should be free
government is formed to protect natural rights of life liberty and prosperity
environmental philosophy that evil in humans is due to bad social situations

Question 3

Baron de Montesquieu

Answer 3

French philosopher
wrote the spirit of laws
thought government needed branches
basis for US Constitution

Question 4

Voltaire

Answer 4

Enlightened philosophe
admired England
Saw power of government
secular conception of world history
crush the infamous thing

Question 5

Du chatelet

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Translated principia into French

Question 6

Deism

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Envisioning god like a clockmaker, not intervening in human affairs

Question 7

Denis Diderot

Answer 7

Wrote an enlightened encyclopedia

Question 8

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Answer 8

Swiss/French philosopher
wrote the social contract
Man of feeling with poetic approach
a lookahead into age of romanticism
the general will of people was sovereign

Question 9

David Hume

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Scottish, only trust your senses, reason is too abstract

Question 10

Immanuel Kant

Answer 10

German
Followed principles of reasons
Dare to know: sapere aude
wrote what is Enlightenment

Question 11

Cesare beccaria

Answer 11

Italian
wanted to reform laws and legal system so they apply to everyone
Wrote on crimes and punishments

Question 12

Madame du deffand

Answer 12

Hosted very popular salons

Question 13

Adam smith

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Economic philosopher
wrote the wealth of nations
advocated freetrade
advocated market economy
three natural laws of economics

Question 14

Three natural laws of economics

Answer 14

Self interest, competition, supply and demand