History Enlightenment Cards

For historyyyyy

Locke

Natural rights: Life, Liberty, and Property

Bacon

Experiment on everything

Rousseau

Wanted a Democracy/ society corrupts people

Beccaria

Abolish torture/Right to a speedy trial

Voltaire

Freedom of expression and religion

Hobbes

Humans are naturally selfish/Social Contract with Gov.

Diderot

Created the Encyclopedia

Montesquieu

3 Branches of Government

Descartes

Doubt everything

Wollstonecraft

Women’s education/rights

Salons

Fancy living rooms where rooms on the Enlightenment were held

Scientific Revolution

Rev. that led to a new way of thinking about the natural world

Enlightened despot

dictators/rulers that spread the Enlightenment

Secular

Focusing on life, not the afterlife

Age of Exploration

People were introduced to other cultures and customs, creating more ideas and questions

Humanism

The idea that all humans have potential

Social Contract (Hobbes’ theory)

Giving up rights to the government to keep society in check