A | B |
scientist | apply reason to natural world |
enlightenment thinks | apply reason to human world |
human world | law and government |
Declaration of Independence | enlightenment document written by Thomas Jefferson |
Thomas Hobbes | Leviathan |
John Locke | Two Treatises on Government |
Baron de Montesquieu | The Spirit of Laws |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | The Social Contract |
Voltaire | religious toleration; free speech |
People are sovereign; no divine right | Locke |
Absolutism needed to manage human behavior | Hobbes |
Separation of Powers | Montesquieu |
Gov't is contract between people and rulers | Rousseau |
Separation of church and state | Voltaire |
enlightenment effects | fueled democratic revolutions |
natural world | earth, animals, universe |