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32 Cards in this Set
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Natural Law |
rules found through reason they govern scientific forces |
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Social Contract |
agreement where freedom for organized society is given up |
something is given up |
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natural rights |
rights from birth |
theyre rights that are natural...not human made |
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Philosophes /ers |
thinkers who revolve everything around reason reason=reforms |
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Thomas Hobbes + John Locke |
English Thinkers ideas=key to Enlightenment |
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Thomas' beliefs (3 main) |
-people are naturally bad -absolute monarchy is good -social contract is good |
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John's 3 main beliefs |
-people have natural rights -citizens can overthrow bad rulers -best gov=limited power + accepted by all |
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laissez faire |
Business can operate with little to no government involvement |
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In Locke's book Two Treaties of Government...Locke argued hat... |
people form governments to protect their natural rights |
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Baron De MONTESQUIEU was a... who studied ... |
-English thinker who studied all forms of government in Europe |
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Montesquieu believed (2 main things) |
-absolute monarchy was BAD -3 branches of gov. would help divide power |
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Montesquieu influenced (2 main things) |
-Checks and balances -affected the framers of the constituton |
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Voltaire was a ....who's "trade" was to... |
philosophe who's trade was to say what he thought |
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Voltaire wrote about the... |
abuses of his day(slavery,corrupt leaders, etc) |
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Voltaire's books were destroyed how? What was his punishment for his work? |
His books were burned and outlawed. He offended the Cath,Church and the French gov. , so he was imprisoned and sentenced to exile. He continued his work. |
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Denis Diderot wrote a (amount) volume set of books called the .... |
Encyclopedia |
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The purpose of the Encyclopedia was change the... |
general way of thinking |
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Diderot's Articles included work by leading thinkers f the day ( including Voltaire and Montesquieu)....They denounced things like...and encouraged things like... |
slavery freedom of speech and education for all |
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Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU believed that people in their natural state were basically... |
good |
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Rousseau believed ... corrupted people's innocence and that ...set too many limitations on people's behaviors. |
society (for both) |
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Rousseau put his faith in the GENERAL WILL which put ... before... |
the good of the community before the individuals interests |
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What was the Enlightenment's slogan? |
free and equal |
it did not reply to women |
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Women had natural rights but they were limited to ... |
home and family |
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Wollstonecraft was a well know British...who focused on getting ....for boys and girls |
critic equal education |
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French thinkers known as physio----- focused on economic ------- |
physiocrats reforms |
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Philosophes and Physiocrats based their thinking off of ------- --- |
natural law |
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Mercantilism is where |
gov. regulates economy to get a favorable balance of trade |
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Mercantilism was rejected by this group.This group then urged the ------- ----- which allowed just about the opposite |
physiocrats laissez faire |
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These people supported free trade and opposed tariffs |
physiorats |
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Scottish economist ---- ----- was a strong supporter of laissez faire |
adam smith |
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Adam Smith's ideas helped shape productive economies in the 18 & 1900s. One of his main focuses was linking trade,wages, profit and economic growth to ------ & ------ |
supply and demand |
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The encyclopedia helped spread ..... ideas throughout Europe and across the Atlantic to the Americas |
Enlightenment |
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