AP European History / Unit 4: Scientific, Philosophical, and Political Developments

4.3 The Enlightenment

3 practice questions

Notes

Philosophes in salons and print: Locke (natural rights), Montesquieu (separation of powers), Voltaire (religious tolerance, free speech), Rousseau (The Social Contract, general will), Diderot's Encyclopédie, Adam Smith (free markets), Mary Wollstonecraft (women's rights). Deism: God as a clockmaker.

Practice

Deism held that:

Rousseau's Social Contract argued that legitimate government is based on:

Diderot's Encyclopédie:

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