Enlightenment Unit Terms Flashcards
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Faith to Reason
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During the Enlightenment, people were focusing more on reason than faith.
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Thomas Hobbes
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- Believed everyone had a right to everything
- Believed a single ruler should have total authority over the people, monarchy
- Believed a strong authority was the only way to avoid the evils of war
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John Locke
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- During the Enlightenment period
- Believed in Natural Rights, life liberty, and property
- Opposed to Hobbes, wanted a democracy
4
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Social Contract
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- John Locke’s ideas of a contract between the government and its people
- Government owed the people protection and the people trusted the government
5
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Natural Rights
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Every mans right to life, liberty, and property
6
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Montesquieu
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7
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Voltaire
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8
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Rousseau
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9
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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-Woman who enlightened people about women’s rights
10
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Salons
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-A place where people came together and discussed the topics in France
