Enlightenment Terms
Matching exercise
Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
| Enlightenment | Intellectual revolution |
| Philosophes | Social critics of the 18th century |
| Deism | Clockmaker theory |
| Voltaire | Perhaps greatest French philosopher |
| Humanitarianism | Promoting human welfare and social reform |
| Enlightened Despots | Catherine the Great; Frederick the Great |
| Montesquieu | Power checks power" |
| Candide | Voltaire wrote? |
| Rousseau | Wrote Social Contract |
| The Spirit of laws | Montesquieu wrote? |
| . Fontenelle | Wrote Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds |
| . Bayle | Wrote Historical and Critical Dictionary |
| . John Locke | Wrote Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
| . The Persian Letters | Montesquieu's social satire (1721) |
| d’Holbach | Wrote System of Nature |
| The Social Contract | The general will and popular sovereignty |
| . Salon | Social gathering |
| Kant | German philosopher |
| Tabula Rosa | Locke's blank slate theory |
| Encyclopedia | Diderot and d'Alembert edited |
| Hume | Scottish philosopher |