The Enlightenment and its Impact

The insistence on the power and authority of human reason and the rejection of superstition.

Use their own reason to discover truth and question traditional modes of authority, especially the church.

The rational powers of each person, rather than an organized social body such as the state.

<p>The idea of popular consent and the social contract.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Voltaire, Diderot, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, John Locke, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Christian church and its infamous priests.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He believed that each person was born as a blank slate and needed experience to form ideas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They believed that reason could discover the laws of the universe with little observation and emphasized the importance of math and formal logic.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They believed that all knowledge had to come from the senses and that reason was put in the service of observation and desire.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They claimed that political authority was derived from a social contract and that rulers had a right to govern because of an agreement with those who are governed.</p> Signup and view all the answers