Homework #8

CLARIFYING: 
According to Hobbes, why would people want to live under the rule of an absolute monarch?
Because the people felt like they need someone to be in charge and keep structure to get things done and also they would have order
SKILL BUILDER:
1. What important documents reflect the influence of Enlightenment ideas?


The Declaration Of Independence And The Bill Of Rights


2. In your opinion, which are the two most important Enlightenment ideas? Support your answer with reasons.

I think women's rights and freedom of expression are the most important. Women's rights is important is because people always claim everyone was equal women weren't always treated equal as men are but with the women's rights they are finally treated equal. Also  freedom of expression is important because everone needs to express themselves if not we would all be the same and nothing would get accomplished.


TERMS & NAMES 

- Enlightenment
A new movement that was paved from the ideas of the Scientific Revolution.

- Social Contract
When people gave up their rights to a powerful ruler in exchange they gained law and order, control over the government.

- John Locke
A philosopher who had a more positive view on human nature.

- Natural Rights
Life, Liberty, and Property. The three things everyone is born with.

- Philosophes
Social critics of France during the time of the Enlightenment.

- Voltaire
François Marie Arouet's pseudonym 

- Montesquieu
A French writer who spent his studies on Political Liberty


- Separation of Powers
The division of powers among different branches

- Jean Jacques Rousseau
A french philosopher that was passionately committed to individual freedom.

-  Mary Wollstonecraft
A woman who stood up for women's right's.






SYNTHESIZING:
"Power should be a check to power." - Baron de Montesquieu
This quote means that one branch should check in with one branch to see if there power is equal. One branch shouldn't be over powering another branch. There would be no balance and equality which is an idea of the enlightenment.

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” -Jean Jacques Rousseau
This quote means that everyone is born free but do to society and laws you are imprisoned to act like how people of high power want you to act as if you are then little minions doing as they please. This then locks you up in chains until you die and you are let free again. This relates to the enlightenment because peoples freedom were stripped from them.

“Let women share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of men.”-Mary Wollstonecraft
This quote means if you should give women the same rights and men they wouldn't abuse them they would do the same thing men do with theirs.