2.2: The Enlightenment due 10/9
The Enlightenment
Directions:
Watch the following video about the Enlightenment.
Practice what you learned on Quizlet.
Post your final Quizlet score.
Respond to the following questions.
Post your responses.
Questions:
- What score did you earn on the Quizlet quiz?
- What was the significance of the Enlightenment and how did it impact the formation of the American government?
- Describe "natural rights."
- According to the Enlightenment philosopher John Locke, if a government doesn't protect people's "natural rights," then what do the people have a right to?
- What did Voltaire add to the Enlightenment movement.
- In your opinion which philosopher's ideas are needed in government?
- Post your answers.
1) I earned a 4/4 on the Quizlet quiz. The video was quite informative, aiding me in drawing upon Enlightenment knowledge I learned last year in U.S. History.
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3) “Natural rights” are Enlightenment philosopher John Locke’s deduction that every person is given the automatic right at birth to their life, liberty, and property. He believed these god-given, or naturalistic unalienable rights were unerringly fundamental, and that one would quickly notice when theirs were violated by another.
4) Locke advised that the people had the right to alter, and even overthrow their governments if they did not protect them.
5) Voltaire added the ideology of the separation of church and state to the Enlightenment consciousness.
6) I believe that Locke’s declarations of natural rights, Montesquieu’s deductions of how critical a separation of powers and checks and balances are, Rousseau’s social contract proving that governmental powers that be aren’t finite, and Voltaire’s elucidations upon the basic need for there to be a separation of church and state make up the foundations of just, sane governmental rule.