Absolutism and Enlightenment

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  1. 4. people hand over their rights to a strong ruler in exchange they gained law order. Hobbies believed that by this people formed a government.
  2. 6. the political belief that one ruler should hold all the power within the boundaries of a country
  3. 8. freedom of the individual and basic rights of man
  4. 9. The Enlightenment idea that political power came from the people's consent to be lead.
  5. 10. stressed the idea that society and human kind could improve
  6. 11. the philosophes rejected the medieval idea that people should seek joy in heaven and urged people to seek happiness on earth
  7. 12. what is natural is also good and reasonable
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  1. 1. the political idea that God created the monarchy and that the monarch acted as God's representative on earth, so the monarch was answerable only to God, not to his subjects
  2. 2. Enlightenment thinkers believed that truth could be discovered through reason or logical thoughts
  3. 3. social critics of France
  4. 5. kings or queens who held all the political power within their states' boundary
  5. 7. a new intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of the individual to solve problems, also known as the Age of Reason.