Notes- The Enlightenment

Notes- The Enlightenment

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What is The Enlightenment? What did John Locke think about the idea of one person having absolute rule? 3. What are natural rights? 4. John Locke argued that people are born with a mind that is a: 5. Locke’s ideas can be found in what two significant documents? 6. Montesquieu is best known for these two big ideas: 7. Rousseau wrote about what he called “the social contract”. What is a “social contract”? 8. Who is considered the founder modern economics? 9. What is Laissez-Faire economics? 10. What philosopher argued that punishments should not be exercises in brutality? 11. List at least 3 reasons why Enlightenment ideas spread so fast. 12. Locke’s argument that citizens were in rebelling against a government that causes them harm had a strong impact on the colonists.

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Notes- The Enlightenment

Notes- The Enlightenment

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What is The Enlightenment? What did John Locke think about the idea of one person having absolute rule? 3. What are natural rights? 4. John Locke argued that people are born with a mind that is a: 5. Locke’s ideas can be found in what two significant documents? 6. Montesquieu is best known for these two big ideas: 7. Rousseau wrote about what he called “the social contract”. What is a “social contract”? 8. Who is considered the founder modern economics? 9. What is Laissez-Faire economics? 10. What philosopher argued that punishments should not be exercises in brutality? 11. List at least 3 reasons why Enlightenment ideas spread so fast. 12. Locke’s argument that citizens were in rebelling against a government that causes them harm had a strong impact on the colonists.

What is The Enlightenment? What did John Locke think about the idea of one person having absolute rule? 3. What are natural rights? 4. John Locke argued that people are born with a mind that is a: 5. Locke’s ideas can be found in what two significant documents? 6. Montesquieu is best known for these two big ideas: 7. Rousseau wrote about what he called “the social contract”. What is a “social contract”? 8. Who is considered the founder modern economics? 9. What is Laissez-Faire economics? 10. What philosopher argued that punishments should not be exercises in brutality? 11. List at least 3 reasons why Enlightenment ideas spread so fast. 12. Locke’s argument that citizens were in rebelling against a government that causes them harm had a strong impact on the colonists.

What is The Enlightenment? What did John Locke think about the idea of one person having absolute rule? 3. What are natural rights? 4. John Locke argued that people are born with a mind that is a: 5. Locke’s ideas can be found in what two significant documents? 6. Montesquieu is best known for these two big ideas: 7. Rousseau wrote about what he called “the social contract”. What is a “social contract”? 8. Who is considered the founder modern economics? 9. What is Laissez-Faire economics? 10. What philosopher argued that punishments should not be exercises in brutality? 11. List at least 3 reasons why Enlightenment ideas spread so fast. 12. Locke’s argument that citizens were in rebelling against a government that causes them harm had a strong impact on the colonists.