QUIZ!!!

1. How did Galileo’s discoveries change our understanding of the nature of the heavens? (Why did the Church threaten to torture him unless he recanted?)
2. How did the philosophes apply Newton’s discovery of universal laws governing motion to the problems of society and government?
3. What is Hobbes’ version of the social contract?
4. What was Locke’s conception of the social contact? (When did he believe citizens had the responsibility to rebel?)
5. What reform movements were inaugurated by the philosphes? How did they believe a utopian society could be created?

• How does Locke’s epistemology refute the Church’s idea of original sin and encourage an Enlightened faith in progress?