Enlightenment Review Questions

Enlightenment • People are born neutral and have the

capability to govern themselves. People have certain rights that the government must protect Right to life, liberty, and property influenced American Revolution

• Absolute government is necessary to protect the people from each other because people are naturally evil. Favored Monarchy

• Freedom of speech, use of satire to expose hypocrisy

• Women should have equal rights as men

• Society makes people evil, people ought to be free

• Separation of powers, Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

• "In order to have…liberty, it is necessary that government be set up so that one man need not be afraid of another“

• "The condition of man (in the state of nature)…is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

• "I may not agree with a word you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it“

• "Men being…by nature all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of theirs estate and subjected to the political power of another without his own consent“

• "…civilized women of the present century, with a few exceptions, are only anxious to inspire love, when they ought to cherish a nobler ambition and by their abilities and virtues exact respect."

• "Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains“

Name Main Idea Famous Quote

Hobbes

Locke

Voltaire

Montesquieu

Rousseau

Wollstonecraft

Enlightenment Philosophes