Enlightenment Vocabulary

enlightened despot

• Period of time right before Enlightenment: a highly elaborate style of architecture, art and design that flourished in Europe in the 17th & 18th centuries

• a belief that we come to knowledge through the use of logic, and thus independently of sensory experience

• is a ruler with absolute power (a despot) who embraces Enlightenment ideals

• an informal education for women, where they were able to exchange ideas, receive and give criticism, read their own works and hear the works and ideas of other intellectuals

A European movement that happened during the late 17th and 18th centuries using reason and logic as well as individualism to explain the natural world rather than tradition.

• Separation of Powers

• The Enlightenment

• Separation of Church and State

• Social Contract

The belief that things can be proven using logic and reason. 

• Empiricism

• Humanism

• Rationalism

• Individualism

To give up some rights to gain order, protection or safety

• Natural Laws

• Absolutism

• Free Exercise

• Social Contract

Which Enlightenment thinker is known for the idea of separation of powers in government?

• John Locke

• Voltaire

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What is the term for the belief in the power of human reason to understand and shape the world?

• Empiricism

• Rationalism

• Skepticism

• Humanism

Which Enlightenment philosopher wrote 'The Social Contract'?

• John Locke

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Thomas Hobbes

• Immanuel Kant

What is the Enlightenment idea that suggests people are born with certain rights that cannot be taken away?

• Natural Rights

• Divine Right

• Social Contract

• Utilitarianism

Who is the author of 'Critique of Pure Reason', a significant work during the Enlightenment?

• Voltaire

• Immanuel Kant

• David Hume

• Baruch Spinoza

Which concept refers to the Enlightenment belief in progress and the perfectibility of human society?

• Determinism

• Optimism

• Skepticism

• Empiricism