Enlightenment vocab 2019

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Agreement between rulers and people for social benefits

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Social Contract

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Monarchy with total control

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Absolute Monarchy

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Thinker seeking wisdom and pondering life questions

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Philosopher

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Gathering of philosophers in Europe during the Enlightenment for discussion and entertainment.

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Salons

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Using logical thinking, not superstition, to find knowledge and truth.

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Reason

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God set the world in motion and left it, like a watchmaker.

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Deism

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Reason is the chief source of knowledge.

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Rationalism

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A king or queen

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monarch

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Power to rule comes from God; ruler accountable only to God.

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divine right of kings

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Belief in individual influence on the world (HUMANS CAN DO IT!)

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Humanism