Enlightenment Thinkers

This image is most closely related to which thinker?

• Voltaire

• Hobbes

• Locke

• Montesquieu

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Which Enlightenment philosopher believed that governments should be based on majority rule?

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

• Locke

• Hobbes

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Which Enlightenment philosopher argued that power comes from the "Consent of the Governed?"

• Hobbes

• Locke

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

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According to Enlightenment thinker John Locke, why are governments created?

• God gives monarchs a divine right to rule over their people

• People are naturally selfish and need a strong ruler to create order

• People set up governments to protect their lives and property

• Civil government must be established to offset the power of the church

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an intellectual movement in 18th-century Europe that emphasized the importance of human thought and science rather than religious belief

• Romanticism`

• Transcendetalism

• Age of Reason/Enlightenment

• Colonialism

What were three of the main ideas that came about during the Enlightenment that were centered on reason?

• democracy, liberty, and reason

• religious tolerance, revolution, and liberty

• treason, morality, and republicanism

• liberty, republicanism, and religious tolerance

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The Enlightenment was a movement primarily committed to the use of _____________.

• philosophy

• religious faith

• emotion

• reason

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comprised philosophers, scientists

• Native American Literature

• Age of Reason/Enlightenment

• Colonialism

• Transcendentalism

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What term does the Enlightenment refer to?

• 19th-century movement that featured ideas that focused on the emotional impact of nature and ability to teach man intuition

• 18th-century movement that featured a refocus on the European Monarchies: power given to one fair and righteous ruler

• 18th-century movement that featured a range of ideas centered on reason as the primary source of authority and legitimacy

• 17th-century movement that served as a revival of Puritan faith for those who had fallen from the church

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Check all characteristics that apply to the Rationalist Era:

• Valued science, reason, and logic over religion

• Believed people to be inherently good

• Colonies were trying to find their own identity

• Believed in theocracy - mixture of government and religion

• Also known as the Age of Enlightenment and Age of Reason

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