Study Sheet on The Political Revolution and the Enlightenment
Revolution
in Political Thought:
1. What were
three features of the emerging modern state?
2. (Review)
According to Machiavelli, why should a leader avoid morality in his
administration of government?
3. What was
Hobbes’ vision of human nature?
4.
What is
Hobbes’ version of the social contract?
5. Why was
an absolute monarchy necessary in Hobbes’ state?
6. What was
Locke’s vision of human nature?
7.
What was
Locke’s theory of natural rights?
8. Under
what conditions does a citizen have the right to rebel, according to Locke? The
Enlightenment
9.
How did
the philosophes believe they would inaugurate an enlightened age?
10. How did
the philosophes apply Newton’s discovery of universal laws governing motion to
the problems of society and government?
11. What were
the deists’ religious beliefs?
12. What was
Locke’s theory of epistemology, the way humans learn?
13. How does
Locke’s epistemology refute the Church’s idea of original sin? 14. What reform movements were inaugurated by the philosphes? How did they believe a utopian society could be created?
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