The Enlightenment Notes
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- Q1
What is the "Age of Reason" inspired by?
The Church
Reformation
Drake
Scientific Revolution
30s - Q2
According to the notes, what is the State of Nature?
Government by the people
Life that is good
The natural landscape
Life without any institutions to control us
30s - Q3
Who are some of the thinkers that discussed the State of Nature?
Locke, Montesquieu, Wollstonecraft
Voltaire
Montesquieu
Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau
30s - Q4
What is the Social Contract?
An agreement between nations
A legal document outlining individual rights
An unwritten agreement in which people give up their freedom to live in an organized society
A political treaty between rulers
30s - Q5
Which Enlightenment thinker(s) discussed Natural Rights?
Rousseau
Montesquieu
Voltaire
Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Wollstonecraft
30s - Q6
What does the concept of "Equality" encompass, according to the notes?
Everyone deserves the same status and opportunities
30s - Q7
What is the General Will, as described in the notes?
The conscience and desire of the people, placing the good of the people over individual interest
30s - Q8
The person who really talked about General Will
Locke
Wollstonecraft
Hobbes
Rousseau
30s - Q9
Human reasoning could be applied to help resolve
Social Problems
30s - Q10
Enlightenment thinkers believed reason could be used to:
combat ignorance, superstition, and tyranny
30s - Q11
The idea of a "social contract" could be found in the book The Leviathan, written by
Thomas Hobbes
30s - Q12
The ideas of “inalienable rights” can be found in the:
Declaration of Independence
30s