The Enlightenment

Question 1

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freedom

Question 2

Enlightenment thinking on government included

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taking a secular approach.

Question 3

Under what circumstances did John Locke think it would be acceptable for the people to overthrow the government?

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If the government violated the social contract, the people could overthrow the government.

Question 4

John Locke believed humans are

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naturally reasonable.

Question 5

John Locke thought people were neither good nor bad naturally. How did Hobbes’s views differ from Locke’s?

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Hobbes thought people were naturally violent.

Question 6

Read the quote by Thomas Hobbes.Law was brought into the world for nothing else but to limit the natural liberty of particular men in such manner as they might not hurt but assist one another and join together against a common enemy.

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to reduce liberty

Question 7

Which act could be considered an acceptance of the social contract?

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observing traffic laws in exchange for driving on the highway

Question 8

What did the philosophers of the Enlightenment seek to understand?

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the natural rights governing human behavior and society

Question 9

What must people provide in order to be governed under a social contract?

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rational consent to the government

Question 10

Thomas HobbesJohn LockeBaron de Montesquieu

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Thomas Hobbes

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