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enlightenment assm
elightenment assesment review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| who believed that people are cruel, greedy, selfish, and need control | thomas hobbes |
| targeted corrupt officals an idle aristocrats | voltaire |
| social contract was to escape chaos | thomas hobbes |
| books he wrote were burnt | voltaire |
| detested slave trade and deptared religious prejudice | voltaire |
| he was imprisoned and forced into exile | voltaire |
| a powerful government is neccesary for control. | thomas hobbes |
| he wanted to control corupt officials by electing people of power | voltaire |
| believed in human rights | voltaire, rousseau, stonecraft, smith, diderot, and jon locke |
| believed people were generally good | rousseau |
| wrote the social contract | rousseau |
| society placed to many limitations on behavior, controls should be minimal | rousseau |
| faith in general will and conscience of people | rousseau |
| influenced political and social thinkers | rousseau |
| believes you should elect gov. and have no monarch | rousseau |
| understood free and equal did not apply to womern | wall stonecraft |
| agrued being excluded from the social contract | wall stonecraft |
| british critic | wall stonecraft |
| published the undictation of the rights of woman about equal rights and educations for girls and boys | wall stonecraft |
| scottish economist, free market should regulate buisness, manufacturing, trade, wages | adam smith |
| profits and economic growth were all linked to supply and demand | adam smith |
| published the wealth of nations | adam smith |
| supported laizez faire (policy of buisness without gov. interference) | adam smith |
| government had duty to protect society, administer justice, and provid public works | adam smith |
| shaped economies mid 1800s- 1900s | adam smith |
| worked for years to produce 28 volume encylopedia ( 400 copies ) | Diderot |
| his purpose was to change the general way of thinking | Diderot |
| explained government, phylosophy, and religion | Diderot |
| articles about montesquie and voltaire | Diderot |
| denounced slavery, praised freedom and expression | Diderot |
| roman catholics tried to ban the encyclopedia | Diderot |
| worked in education | Diderot,stonecraft |
| optimistic view of human natur and natural rights ( rights from birth ) | John locke |
| wanted limited power in gov, people have the right to over throw the gov | John locke |
| wrote two treaties of a government | John locke |
| people formed governments to protect natural rights | John locke |
| studied government of Europe, read about ancient and medival Europe, leanred about chinese and native american cultures | Montesquie |
| published - the spirit of the laws | Montesquie |
| best way to protect liberty was to divide various functions and powers of gov. among three branches. | Montesquie |
| seperated and balanced power | Montesquie |
| concept of social contract | an agreement among the members of an organized society between the governed and the government defining and limiting the rights and duties of each |
| natural law and natural rights | cannot take away natural rights, rights tat are given to you when born - life liberty and property - |
| the concept of an enlightened despot what is it, who are they, their policies | absolute monarchy, effort to reinforce their own authority, freedom of speach and property |
| connection between scientific revolution and the age of enlightenment | the enlightenment was a program to reformpolitical, economical, and social aspects of European life by using the scientific method from scientific revolution |
| Difficulties faced by enlightenment thinkers | they idolized human reason and hated biblical revelation, arrogence, admit their mistakes |
| Frederick the great | prussian ruler gained lyalty of prussian nobles |
| catherine the great | embrassed russian othodox faith, western ideas, worked to bring political and cultural life. boyars rights, peasants forced ti serfdom life |
| joseph 2 | poland, centralize pwer, divided polish gov, worked to expand to russian, prussian, and austrian standards, control of eastern poland, free state of poland disapeared |
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