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Which came first the Scientific Revolution or Enlightenment?
Scientific Revolution
Enlightenment
During what time period did the Scientific Revolution mostly happen?
15th Century
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
During what time period did the Enlightenment mostly happen?
15th Century
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
Which movement challenged authority and social structure the most?
Scientific Revolution
Enlightenment
What event influenced the philosopher Thomas Hobbes
The English Civil War (Execution of Charles I)
The Glorious Revolution
The Seven Years War
French Revolution
Which statement would Thomas Hobbes agree with most?
People are naturally good and need little leadership to keep them from doing bad.
People are naturally good and need strong leadership to keep them from doing bad.
People are naturally bad and need little leadership to keep them from doing bad.
People are naturally bad and need strong leadership to keep them from doing bad.
Hobbes believed the natural state of man was natural brutish and short. He used that phrase “bellum omnium contra omnes” which means?
"the war of all against all"
“Natural Rights”
“Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.”
What event influenced the philosopher John Locke?
The English Civil War (Execution of Charles I)
The Glorious Revolution
The Seven Years War
French Revolution
John Locke wrote the Two Treatises of Government which stressed that people have
no rights.
some rights.
“Natural Rights” (God given)
the right to do whatever they please.
Which statement would John Locke agree most with?
The purpose of government is to protect us from ourselves.
The purpose of government is to protect our Natural Rights.
Which statement would Thomas Hobbes agree with most?
Power ultimately belongs to the Monarch (Leviathan)
Power ultimately belongs to the people.
Which philosopher would agree most with this statement, "If a government fails to protect the peoples rights. They have a right of revolution."
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Who is the Scottish philosopher & economist who is known as the "Father of Modern Economics"?
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Adam Smith
Mary Wollstonecraft
Adam Smith's most famous work on economics is?
The Art of The Deal
Wealth of Nations
The Social Contract
Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Which of the following concepts are commonly associated with Adam Smith?
Lassefare
Invisible Hand
Capitalism
Communism
Famous author and woman's rights advocate wrote The Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Shelley
Marie-Thérèse de Geoffrin
Olympe de Gouges
Mary Wollstonecraft is the mother of what famous English author that would later write the gothic novel Frankenstein?
Emily Brontë
Mary Shelley
Marie-Thérèse de Geoffrin
Olympe de Gouges
The Great Awakening was an evangelical movement which swept Great Britain and the America colonies. Which Methodist Minister played a large role in its spread?
John Wesley
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
David Hume
Voltaire
France was the cultural capital of Europe in the 17-18th Century. French was the linga-Franca (most popular language of the time). What was the name for the French Philosophers?
Philosophers
Philosophes
Jacobins
Dantonists
While many ideas of the Enlightenment spread via letters, meetings in coffee/tea houses in France ideas of the Enlightenment also spread via meeting in upper class homes hosted by woman known as what movement?
Barber Shop
Confession
Convention
Solan
This philosophe famously wrote “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.” His most influential work on politics is The Social Contract
Goethe
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Montesquieu
Voltaire
In this most famous work Spirit of the Laws this philosophe stressed the concepts of separation of powers
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Montesquieu
Immanuel Kant
Voltaire
This philosphe is arguably the influential of the philosphes. His most famous works are Candid & Letters on England. His greatest legacy is likely his advocation of religious toleration and the separation of church and state.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Montesquieu
Cesare Beccaria
Voltaire
The belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe best describes?
Atheism
Agnosticism
Deism
Theology
The Enlightenment would have a major influence on which conflicts?
30 Years War
The Seven Years War
American Revolution
French Revolution
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