Enlightenment Flashcards
1
Q
What did the enlightenment question
A
Absolute monarchy
Church
The structure of society
2
Q
What did the enlightmenment stress the importance of
A
Logic
Criticism over faith
3
Q
Key Rousseau belief that came evident later on
A
Believed the people had a right to overthrow governments that failed to act correctly
4
Q
Voltaire believed in free
A
Speech
5
Q
Voltaire =
A
Right to a fair trial
Free speech
6
Q
Diderot saw the church as
A
A bar to progress
7
Q
But wasn’t the enlightenment confined to the educated ?!!
A
No! Literary rates WERE pretty high! Particularly in Paris but in rest of Fra it was still 60%
