Exam 5: Famous Authors and Thinkers of the Enlightenment ERA

Colbert was served as a minister in the Court of…………..

'The Confessions' was the Autobiography of ………………..

Denis Diderot was the brightest light of the ……………Enlightenment-a man of intelligence, passion and genius.

Whose masterpiece was 'The Spirit of the Laws'?

Voltaire was a prolific writer, philosopher, poet and pamphletist, and the preeminent figure of the 18th century ………..Enlightenment.

'Wealth of Nations'was the work of ………..

Who wrote the philosophical work, A Discourse on the Sciences and Arts?

………….., one of the best scientists of his time, wrote an essay entitled, "On Liberty and Necessity: Man in the Newtonian Universe."

Two years after writing the Two Tracts on Government, …………….changed significantly in his views about magisterial authority and toleration in An Essay Concerning Toleration (1667).

Thomas Hobbes was an……………. Philosopher

Early in 1776, …………published Common Sense, a hugely influential pamphlet that convinced many American colonists that the time had finally come to break away from British rule.

The Advancement of Learning was written by ………………..

In Common Sense, …………made a persuasive and passionate argument to the colonists that the cause of independence was just and urgent.

Whose masterwork was Leviathan?

Whose major work on political philosophy was the The Social Contract?

Who wrote the controversial work, The Age of Reason?

Who Wrote Philosophical Dictionary?

'Meditations on First Philosophy' was written by ……………….

Who were The Physiocrats?

Persian Letters was written by ………………