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The Enlightenment Questions and Answers 100% Pass Diedrot ✔✔Edited the "Encyclopedia" Montesquieu ✔✔Wrote the "Spirit of Laws" Voltaire ✔✔Wrote "Candide" Rousseau ✔✔Wrote "The Soc... ial Contract" "Encyclopedia" ✔✔This was used to criticized the government, the Church, and society Montesquieu ✔✔Described "perfect" government Voltaire ✔✔Championed freedom of thought and religion Rousseau ✔✔Believed in popular sovereignty Rationalism ✔✔Belief that the truth can be determined solely by logical thinking Enlightenment ✔✔Period in the 1700s when philosophers believed that they could apply the scientific method and use reason to explain human nature logically. Enlightened Despotism ✔✔System of government in which absolute monarchs ruled according to the principles of the Enlightenment Absolute Monarch ✔✔System of government in which the ruler determines policy without consulting either the people or the representatives Salons ✔✔Gathering of the social, political, and cultural elite in France during the Enlightenment. Philosphes ✔✔A group of thinkers or philosphers of the Enlightenment Marie Thérèse Geoffrin ✔✔Hostess of one of the salons Paris ✔✔City that was the center of intellectual activity during the Enlightenment Thomas Hobbes ✔✔wrote "Leviathan" Locke ✔✔wrote "Second (Two) Treaties of Government" life, liberty, and property ✔✔Locke believed that you kept these rights English Civil War ✔✔Event that influenced Hobbes Glorious Revolution ✔✔Event that influenced Locke Popular Sovereignty ✔✔Governmental principle based on just laws and on a government created by and subject to the will of the people. Rousseau ✔✔Believed in the idea of popular sovereignty Montesquieu ✔✔Believed in Separation of Powers and Check and Balances Voltaire ✔✔He influenced Enlightened Despots in Eastern Europe Voltaire ✔✔Attacked injustice among nobility, government, church and believed in religious freedom Jean d' Alembert ✔✔Co-edited the "Encyclopedia" Mary Wollstonecraft ✔✔Wrote "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" Mary Wollstonecraft ✔✔Called for equal rights and education for woman Frederick II ✔✔Enlightened despot who ruled Prussia Catherine II ✔✔Enlightened despot who ruled Russia Joseph II ✔✔Enlightened despot who ruled Austria Joseph II ✔✔Enlightened despot who eliminated torture and the death penalty Catherine II ✔✔Enlightened despot who drafted Russian constitution but never put it into practice Catherine II ✔✔Enlightened despot who increased serfdom Federick II ✔✔Enlightened despot who ordered elementary education for all children Thomas Hobbes ✔✔He believed that once people entered into a social contract, they could not rebel and that the monarch had right to put down rebellion Hobbes ✔✔Believed that society began in anarchy and needed a absolute monarch to maintain a orderly society [Show More]

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