enlightenment Flashcards
“In my kingdom, everyone can go to heaven in their own fashion”
Fredrick II
“I was a leader during the American War of Independence and wrote the Declaration of Independence.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Have the courage to use your own intelligence!”
Kant
“Men are born free but everywhere are in chains!”
Rousseau
“It is necessary for nations to be ruled by a leader with a ‘balance of power’ who is subject to ‘checks and balances’”.
Montisque
“The invisible hand of competition should regulate the economy through supply and demand.”
Adam Smith
“. . . greatest good for the greatest number . . .”
Bentham
“. . . the punishment should fit the crime.”
gilbert?
“My accomplishments include, the first college of medicine, free public education, the expansion of the civil service and other “enlightened” projects.
Mary?
“. . . we are not a tolerant society . . . especially in consideration
of another’s religion . . . too many deaths have occurred in the name of religion . . .”
voltaire
gazettes
French news paper
Various “Acts” of the Revolution
-English revolution
-French Revolution
-American revolution
Deism
form of rational theology that emerged among “freethinking” Europeans in the 17th and 18th centuries.
-eligious truth should be subject to the authority of human reason rather than divine revelation.
Physiocrats
a member of a school of political economists founded in 18th century France and characterized chiefly by a belief that government policy should not interfere with the operation of natural economic laws and that land is the source of all wealth.
Philosophes
the intellectuals of the 18th-century Enlightenment (philosophers).
