Across
- 4. An agreement by a group of people to place themselves under the authority of a government
- 5. This man notes that philosophy settled nothing; he also that people can be deceived by observations/senses, but instead that knowing truth was based on mathematics
- 6. A key figure in the Enlightenment, he was a well-known deist; did not believe in God providing salvation through Jesus.
- 7. The belief that the best way to find true knowledge was through experience
- 10. A political idea that keeps the three parts of government in checks on each other's power
- 12. Believed that without government, people would hurt each other so they should be under an absolute ruler to protect them
- 14. French Enlightenment philosophers
Down
- 1. Believed that humans were happy in their primitive condition but needed government once private ownership was introduced to society; the majority vote should make decisions
- 2. The time in America where people revolted against the King of England and developed their own sovereign country
- 3. Promoted empiricism, observing the world around him to determine truth
- 5. The use of human reason as the best way to establish truth; used by Descartes
- 8. A Scotsman who challenged the ideas of mercantilism, believing instead that countries should trade freely with each other with little-to-no government interference on economic activities
- 9. Under this thought, God is viewed like a clock-winder, who made the world but left it to run according to the natural laws that He set up for it;
- 11. Believed that the point of reading the Bible was not to learn how to live, but was a historical investigation and artifact rather than revelation from God
- 13. A period in Europe where people reexamined the values and religious beliefs in Europe