Study Guide East Europe – Enlightenment

Hint for LEQ:

A Block:

  1. Analyze the different ideas held by Voltaire concerning the roles of women in Europe.
  2. Analyze Voltaire’s views on Hobbes, Leibniz, and Bayle’s ideas in “Candide.”
  3. Compare the views of Machiavelli, Rousseau and Locke on human nature and the relationship between government and the governed.
  4. Trace religious toleration as a political practice and philosophical idea from the mid 16th Century through the Enlightenment.
  5. Analyze the extent to which Frederick the Great of Prussia and Joseph II of Austria advanced and did not advance Enlightenment ideals during their reigns.

D Block:

  1. Analyze the different ideas held by Voltaire concerning the roles of women in Europe.
  2. Analyze Voltaire’s views on Hobbes, Leibniz, and Bayle’s ideas in “Candide.”

3. “Nature and nature’s laws lay hid the night God said, ‘Let Newton be,’ and all was     light.”The couplet above was Alexander Pope’s way of expressing the relationship between the Scientific Revolution and Christianity. What was the effect of seventeenth century science on Christianity, and how did each react to the other.

4. Analyze the ways in which specific intellectuals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries defined the idea of the social contract.

5. Compare and contrast the political ideas of Hobbes and Locke

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