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The Enlightenment and World Revolutions II

According to Montesquieu's political theories, how could government corruption and despotism be prevented?

Starting a revolution if governance is unfair

Separating power equally between branches

Placing all power in the hands of a king

Holding democratic elections

According to Montesquieu's political theories, how could government corruption and despotism be prevented?

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How was Locke's political philosophy revolutionary?

It established the origin of political power in the people.

It called for a system of check and balances.

By giving the assembly the majority of the power

According to their experiences and cultural identity

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How was Locke's political philosophy revolutionary?

What religion grew out of the new scientific discoveries and claimed God no longer had a hand in the world, though he did create it?

Protestantism

Lutheranism

Empiricism

Deism

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What religion grew out of the new scientific discoveries and claimed God no longer had a hand in the world, though he did create it?

Diderot and d'Alembert attempted to document and explain the age's industrial innovations and discoveries in natural science in the _____.

Encyclopédie

Natural Philosophy

Candide

Principia

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Diderot and d'Alembert attempted to document and explain the age's industrial innovations and discoveries in natural science in the _____.

According to David Hume, why is it impossible to truly know an object?

Our senses may deceive us.

Our reason may deceive us.

Both the object and its properties are beyond perception.

The object does not exist in and of itself, only its properties exist.

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According to David Hume, why is it impossible to truly know an object?

Rousseau influenced which of the following people and/or movements:

Immanuel Kant

All of these

Karl Marx

The leaders of the French Revolution

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Rousseau influenced which of the following people and/or movements:

Which discourse first won Rousseau fame by winning an essay contest?

The Discourse on the Arts and Sciences

The Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men

The Social Contract

Emile

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Which discourse first won Rousseau fame by winning an essay contest?

Rousseau's famous line: 'Man was born free; and everywhere he is in chains' came from which of his works?

The Discourse of the Arts and Sciences

The Confessions

Emile

The Social Contract

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Rousseau's famous line: 'Man was born free; and everywhere he is in chains' came from which of his works?

What was Rousseau's main idea about human nature?

human beings are good by nature, but are made corrupt by society

society is good, but individuals are corrupt

there is no such thing as human nature

human nature is neither good nor evil

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What was Rousseau's main idea about human nature?

Rousseau was an important philosopher during which historical period?

The Dark Ages

The Renaissance

The Cold War

The Enlightenment

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Rousseau was an important philosopher during which historical period?

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