Answer: So that they would escape thier selfish and wicked lives.
What important documents reflect the influence of Enlightenment ideas?
Answer: The Bill of Rights.
In your opinion, what are the two most important ideas of the Enlightenment? Support your answers with reasons.
Answer: 1) Women's Equality- Women deserve to be equal,and don't deserve to be treated like objects in terms that they can't go to school,can't vote,etc.
2) Abolishment of Torture- It's just not human to torture thier own species. Besides, what if the person was guilty for something that they did not commit.
Identify terms
- Enlightenment-When the scientific revolution and reason came into all aspects of society.
- Social Contract-The contract that holds the idea that everyone gives thier rights to a new leader.
- John Locke-A philosopher who critizied the idea of absolute monarchy.
- Natural Rights-The rights(life,liberty, and property)that have to be protected.
- Philosophes-The social critics of thier period.
- Voltaire-A philosopher who wrote over 70 books about politics.
- Montesquieu- A writer who studies political liberty. He is a lawyer and an aristocat.
- Separation of Powers-The three powers(or branches):executive,legislative, or judicial.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau-A philosopher passionate about individual freedom. He was an engraver,music teacher,tutor, and secretary. Believes that women's education is after men's.
- Mary Wollstonecraft-A woman who disagreed with Rousseau's theory.
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