Key Terms for Enlightenment
Across
- 2. An intellectual movement in Europe that advocated questioning the status quo and emphasizing reason
- 4. a political outlook that promotes democratic and representative government, free markets, and individual rights
- 5. the division of powers of a government into different branches so as to limit the concentration of power
- 8. A form of monarchy where there are no checks on the power of the monarch
- 10. a hypothetical scenario usually given as as the condition of humanity before the creation or emergence of societies and governments
- 11. the idea that people are motivated by a desire to make a profit
- 12. the idea that Jews should be given equal rights
Down
- 1. the idea that no religion is the exclusive source of truth and that all religions are equally valid
- 3. a concept coined by Adam Smith that tries to describe the collective effect of individuals greed and their effects on the market
- 5. the idea that society consists of an agreement by individuals to concede their individual rights in exchange for civil rights
- 6. an economic system driven by profit motives, private ownership of the means of production, and free and unregulated markets
- 7. Rights that are innate to everyone, that cannot be given or taken away by a government
- 9. any market that is not regulated or controlled