Enlightenment Thinkers

7. unchanging principles, discovered through reason, that govern all human conduct
8. agreement by which people gave up their freedom for an organized society
11. who did the Enlightenment slogan of "free and equal" NOT apply to?
13. word Hobbes used to describe life
14. this helped spark the Enlightenment
15. French philosophers
16. philosophers emphasized the power of this to uncover general laws of nature that shape all human experience
17. form of government in which a single ruler—typically a monarch or dictator—holds complete, centralized sovereignty and power
19. believed people in their natural state were basically good but corrupted by evils in society
20. allowing business to operate with little or no government interference

1. Scottish economist
2. absolute rulers who used their power to bring about political and social change
3. also called the Age of Reason
4. wrote Leviathan in 1651; believed people were naturally cruel, selfish and greedy
5. rights that belong to all humans from birth
6. informal social gatherings at which writers, artists, philosophes and others exchanged ideas
9. restricting access to ideas and information
10. thought people were basically moral/reasonable and had natural rights
12. outspoken; believed in freedom of speech
18. felt the best way to organize government was through separation of powers