Across
- 4. a monarch (king/queen)holds all power,not shared and not restricted by laws or customs
- 5. developed the social contract theory
- 6. members of a society to cooperate for social benefits-by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection
- 9. came up with the separation of government into three separate powers to avoid tyranny
- 10. believed that skepticism in all matters was the first step towards the truth
- 13. argued that freedom and authority are not contradictory, since legitimate laws are founded on the general will of the citizens
- 14. right of rule is directly from God, not from consent of the people.
- 15. system of right or justice held to be common to all humans and derived from nature rather than from rules of society
Down
- 1. argued that women were just as capable of reason as men and women were not naturally inferior to men
- 2. argued right to life, liberty, property
- 3. French mathematician famous for saying Cogito Ergo Sum
- 7. advocated equal rights for women and people of all races
- 8. translated Locke's ideas into French and also spent some quality time in a French prison for writing a scandalous poem
- 11. belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe
- 12. belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response