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Chapter 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Natural Law | rules of conduct discoverable by reason |
| Thomas Hobbes | a seventeenth-century English thinker who believed in powerful government |
| John Locke | a seventeenth-century English thinker who advocated natural rights |
| Social Contract | an agreement by which people gave up their freedom to a powerful government in order to avoid chaos |
| Natural Rights | rights that belong to all humans from birth, such as life, liberty, and property |
| Philosophe | French for "philosopher;" French thinker who desired reform in society during the Enlightenment |
| Montesquieu | an early and influential thinker who wrote "Persian Letters" (ridiculing French government and social classes) and "The Spirit of the Laws" (advancing the idea of separation of powers) |
| Voltaire | the most famous of the philosophes, who defended freedom of thought |
| Diderot | the man who edited the "Encyclopedia" to change the general way of thinking |
| Rousseau | a man who promoted "The Social Contract," stating the some controls on society were necessary, but they should be minimal |
| Laissez Faire | policy allowing business to operate with little or no government interference |
| Adam Smith | a Scottish economist who argued for a free market |
| Censorship | restriction on access to ideas and information |
| Salon | informal social gathering at which writers, artists, philosophes, and others exchanged ideas |
| Baroque | ornate style of art and architecture popular in the 1600s and 1700s |
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