enlightment quiz

What was the enlightment

Was an intellectual and philosophical movement that brought ideas

Thomas Hobbes

Social contract theory, belief in strong central government to maintain order

John Locke

Natural rights and how government should protect these rights

Montesquieu

Advocation for separation of powers in government

Voltaire

Championed freedom of speech, religion, and separation of church and state

Diderot

Compiled the encyclopedia

Rousseau

Believed in popular sovereignty and social contract

Wollstonecraft

Advocates for women’s rights and education

What did most philosophers think about slavery?

They didn’t like it, thought it was against rights and human dignity

Who was responsible for the modern day system of capitalism

Adam smith

What spread enlightenment?

Fiction writing, salons, madam geoffrin

What art and literature changed enlightenment

1600s- baroque art

1700s- rococo art was good for ornamentation

the earth centered veiw was found by ___? (Geocentric theory)

Ptolemy

What led the scientific revolution

Renaissance/reformation

Who discovered heliocentric theory?

Copernicus

Galileo

Found telescope, observed planets that supported Copernicus’s theory

Scientific Method steps

Observation, experimentation, and mathematical data

Francis bacon

Urged scientists to go through long process reasoning (inductive reasoning)

Isaac newton

discovered gravity and universal gravitation

Edward Jenner

Produced worlds first small pox vaccine

Antonie cavioser

Founder of modern chemistry

Descartes

Known as “father of modern philosophy”