Enlightenment Flashcards
European philosophers emphasized the use of?
Reason
The Enlightenment followed the?
Middle Ages
The Enlightenment came during an age of?
absolutism
When authority is controlled by the government and limited education?
absolutism
Enlightenment thinkers relied on the?
Scientific Method
These thinkers emphasized on experimentation and?
Careful observation
Important advances in Enlightenment? (5)
- anatomy
- astronomy
- chemistry
- mathematics
- physics
Thinkers put there findings in?
Encyclopedias
Thinkers also founded?
Scientific Institutions
Social Contract Theory? (2)
- Government (the state)
- No Government (state of nature)
Agreement by which people define and limit their individual rights, thus creating an organized society or government.
Social Contract
Rights that all people are born with the rights of life, liberty, and property.(Definition 1) According to___(2)
- Natural Rights
- John Locke
Thomas Hobbes -(15__(1) - ___79(2))
- 88
2.16
Thomas Hobbes:
-Wrote the ____(1)
-Did NOT believe in ______(2)
-Believed in ________ ______ (3)
-Believed that life in the _____ of _____ (4) would be “solitary,____(5), _____(6), brutish, and ____(7)”
1-Leviathan
2- Revolutions
3. Absolute Monarchy
4.State of Nature
5.poor
6. nasty
7. short
_____(1) social contract:
You gave up ____(2)
to gain ____(3)
1- Hobbes
2- Liberty
3- Security