Jeopardy!
Miscellaneous
Locke
Rousseau
Hobbes
Potpourri
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Final Jeopardy
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Rather than an unpredictable universe,
Enlightenment thinkers began to see the
universe as this.
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What is mechanistic?
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This document, written by
William Bradford prior to the
founding of Plymouth Colony, is
often considered the first
“social contract.”
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What is the Mayflower Compact?
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After the founding of
Jamestown in 1607, colonial
Virginia rose to prosperity by
virtue of the cultivation of this
cash crop.
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What is tobacco?
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This, for the Enlightenment
thinkers, was the surest
guide to truth.
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What is Reason?
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After studying many kinds of
government, the French thinker
Montesquieu argued for this
political concept that ensures
an equal distribution of
responsibilities within a
government.
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What is “separation of powers”?
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The phrase Locke used to
describe the mind at birth,
indicating his idea that
humans are born with no
innate ideas.
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What is “white paper”?
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Locke outlined his view of a
legitimate government (or a just
social contract) in this 1690
book.
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What is The Second Treatise of
Government?
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Locke argued that humans
acquire ideas through these
two types of experience.
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What are sensation and
reflection?
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For Locke, the main reason
people united into
commonwealths and put
themselves under a
government was to preserve
this?
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What is the protection of
property
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Locke used these three
adjectives to describe humans in
a state of nature.
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What are free, equal,
and independent?
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“Man is born free,” Rousseau
insisted, “but everywhere he is
in” these.
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What are “chains”?
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Humans’ harmonious existence in
the state of nature was first
corrupted by the desire for this.
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What is property?
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Rousseau divided inequality
into these two kinds.
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What are physical/natural and
moral/political?
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For a society to be truly just and
equal, it must be governed not by
a individual or an group, but by
this expression of the collective
desire of the citizens.
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What is the General Will?
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In a society governed by a social
contract, citizens surrender this
kind of liberty in favor of greater civil
or moral liberty.
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What is natural liberty?
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Hobbes believed either a single
man or an assembly of men could
hold this elected position in a
society.
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What is the Sovereign (or
absolute power)?
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Hobbes outlined his vision of
the ideal state most
completely in this 1651 work.
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What is Leviathan ?
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According to Hobbes, without of
“common power to keep them
all in awe,” humans live in a
continual state of this condition.
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What is war?
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This description of the life
of man in a state of nature is
among Hobbes’ most
memorable phrases.
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What is “solitary, poor,
nasty, brutish, and
short”?
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Covenants, Hobbes
insisted, without the
sword, are but these,
indicating their fragility.
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What are words?
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The neo-classical style of art and
architecture signaled a rejection of
this style that preceded it.
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What is baroque?
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Expressing Enlightenment
values of order, propriety, and
control, this dance was the most
important dance of the age.
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What is the minuet?
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The most famous Neo-Classical
painter, his works include The Oath
of the Horatii and The Death of
Socrates.
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Who is Jacques-Louis David?
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Jonathan Swift “modestly”
proposed this solution to the
problem of rampant Irish poverty
under English rule.
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What is eating Irish babies?
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This composer’s piece Eine Kleine
Nachtmusik is considered a
quintessential Classical
composition.
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Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
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Final Jeopardy
John Locke’s belief that the end
of government is the protection
of property led this American to
pen the famous phrase, “Life,
Liberty, and the Pursuit of
Happiness”
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Final Jeopardy
Thomas Jefferson
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