Enlightenment Flashcards
Enlightenment
an 18 century European movement in which thinkers attempted to apply the principles of reason and the scientific method to all aspects of society.
Thomas Hobbes
Believed that there should be a social contract between the people and ruler but cannot over throw the ruler.
Voltaire
” I might not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death you’re right to say it.”
Rousseau
“Man is born free but everyone is in chains.”
Mary Wollstonecraft
Didn’t like what Rousseau about women because he says that they should just stay home. Mary also wrote about feminism.
Denis Diderot
Wrote the encyclopedia
Rococo
Frilly, dainty, playful music.
Social Contract
an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection.
Leviathan
Book written by Thomas Hobbes, life is nasty, brutish, and short. This also means sea monster.
Montesquieu
Believed in checks and balances. Separation of powers, executive, legislative, judicial.
The social contract
Social
Cesare Beccaria
Thought that there should be reform of prisons, didn’t agree with torture and capital punishment.
Salon
Social gathering
Neoclassical Art
Type of art that is formal, columns and arches. Also means newly revived.
John Locke
Believed that you should have a social contract between the ruler and people, if the ruler doesn’t give you life, liberty, and property, you can over throw the ruler.
