Across
- 4. A popular Enlightenment era belief that there is a God, but that God isn't involved in people's lives or in revealing truths to prophets.
- 7. This was the group of economists who believed that the wealth of a nation was derived solely from the value of its land
- 9. "Destroy the infamous thing!" statement of Voltaire
- 10. philosophers glorified the collegiality and interdependence of writers within this, what the men and women of enlightenment called the informal international community of philosophes
- 11. ruler who used his or her power to bring about political and social change
Down
- 1. a new innovation after the printing press that made books available to those who could not afford them
- 2. I think, therefore I am (Descartes)
- 3. French for "philosopher"; applied to all intellectuals during the Enlightenment
- 5. Idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs.
- 6. Informal social gatherings at which writers, artists, philosophes, and others exchanged ideas
- 8. John Locke's concept of the mind as a blank sheet ultimately bombarded by sense impressions that, aided by human reasoning, formulate ideas.