terms list 1-5

Question 1

the century’s most exciting intellectual movement. Dedicated to toleration and rational thought, the age of reason. Bringing light into the dark corners of the mind

Answer 1

The Enlightenment

Question 2

French word for philosophers-bold and witty satirist of clergymen, couriers and the pious in general

Answer 2

philosophes

Question 3

freemason, poet and writer. (Francis Arouet)- wrote letters concerning the English Nation

Answer 3

Voltaire

Question 4

a freethinker who in 1696 published Christianity not mysterious, known for pantheism

Answer 4

John Toland

Question 5

believed only those Christian doctrines that could meet the test of reason

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deists

Question 6

Scottish skeptic who attacked both revealed religion and the deist natural religion- thought all religious ideas stemmed from human fears and superstitions

Answer 6

David Hume

Question 7

the most widely read philosopher during the first half of the 18th century

Answer 7

Locke

Question 8

monarch who sought to increase his power and that of his army

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Frederick the Great (Prussia)-

Question 9

the most dangerous philosopher of the Old Regime. The champion of democracy. believed that people chose their government.

Answer 9

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Question 10

the first wholly secular political theorist. Published Leviathan

Answer 10

Thomas Hobbes

Question 11

French aristocrat whose primary concern was to check the unbridled authority of the French kings, wanted a balanced system of government

Answer 11

Montesquieu

Question 12

one of the founders of modern feminism. Wrote a vindication of the rights of woman

Answer 12

Mary Wollstonecraft