Enlightenment
Thinkers promoted reason, science, and political reform. This topic is part of Intellectual History within History. This page currently draws on 6 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Enlightenment trivia questions
The Enlightenment emphasized reason and what?
Answer: Individual rights
Bonus fact: Thinkers promoted reason, science, and political reform.
Which philosopher wrote about natural rights to life, liberty, and property?
Answer: John Locke
Bonus fact: Locke's political ideas influenced later democratic revolutions.
Which Enlightenment thinker argued for separation of governmental powers?
Answer: Montesquieu
Bonus fact: His ideas influenced constitutional systems.
Which famous French Enlightenment encyclopedia was edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert?
Answer: Encyclopédie
Bonus fact: The Encyclopédie was a major 18th-century effort to collect and spread knowledge.
Which Enlightenment thinker strongly influenced the modern idea of separation of powers?
Answer: Montesquieu
Bonus fact: His writings influenced constitutional designers.
Denis Diderot was a philosopher from which country?
Answer: France
Bonus fact: He was a major Enlightenment thinker.