Statistics for Enlightenment People

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Established the American Philosophical Society in 1743, and an academy that became the University of Pennsylvania in 1751. Conducted scientific experiments for electricity, optics, and had more than 200 inventions. Entered into a career in politics	Benjamin Franklin	46%
Most influential philosophe, even though his life was near constant scandals	Voltaire	46%
Considered the father of the science of political economy	Adam Smith	38%
Most prominent writer of 19th century liberalism	John Stuart Mill	38%
Considered the first modern femenist	Mary Wollstonecraft	38%
Used his Encyclopedie to provide knowledge and philosophy to challenge existing political, social, and religious institutions and invited other philosophes to contribute essays to the work, even when banned from publishing in France by King Louis XV	Diderot	31%
His neoclassical style set French painting on a new path toward more realism	Jacques-Louis David	31%
Though people acted in their own self-interest, the “invisible hand” of the market would make it regulate itself (lassiez-faire) and the government does not need to interfere	Adam Smith	23%
Major Enlightened absolutist ruler and influenced an entire era in Russian and European history	Catherine II	23%
Father of criminal sociology and advocate against capital punishment	Cesare Beccaria	23%
Brough attention to the realities of Milanese justice system, appaling treatment of prisoners, lack of sanitary conditions and legal counsel for both men and women Argued for punishment fitting the crime	Cesare Beccaria	23%
Made common sense and personal experience more important than reason as a mode of philosophical inquiry	Hume	23%
Knowledge is opinion and humans would never have certainty	Hume	23%
Her reforms strengthened Austrain power and influenced her son Joseph II	Maria Theresa	23%
Critiqued the existing education of girls and suggested improvements that would give women more opportunities than getting married Demanded educational equality for women, argued the current system kept women ignorant	Mary Wollstonecraft	23%
Composed a variety of Music, most accomplished composer in Europe during the enlightenment	Mozart	23%
Held English life as a model based on the virtues of its politics, commerce, religion, philosophy and arts	Voltaire	23%
Criticized optimistic philosophy, religious intolerance, and political conditions that hurt the poor or working classes	Voltaire	23%
Attempted Enlightenment reforms in Russia such as equality before the law, abolishing torture, religious tolerance and a critique of serfdom (a rebellion changed her mind about the Russian poor) Codified a charter that secured certain reforms for the Russian elites Published Voltaire’s work when banned	Catherine II	15%
Though he believed the army was the key to a strong state, he worked for economic self-reliance for Prussia and worked to increase agricultural production which bettered the lives of the rural peasants His rule claimed to serve the best interest of his subjects and Prussia as a whole Patronized the arts and music, as he learned music as a youth against his father’s wishes	Frederick II	15%
Used art and its message to help encourage correct social behavior with strong, but simple visuals Paintings feature solidity, balance, expressive power, and realism, as well as ideology over emotion and courage and patriotism over love	Jacques-Louis David	15%
One of the most influential philosophers on social and political theory	Jean-Jaques Rousseau	15%
Saw women as oppressed and argued for their full equality in all areas of society	John Stuart Mill	15%
Math and physics gave universal judgements that required no experience Aimed to show morality separate from religion and connected to education	Kant	15%
Awareness comes from both experience and pure thought, and is subjective based on circumstances	Kant	15%
Critiques of the church and the French monarchy Argued for the separation of powers in a government to protect people from despotic leadership, though not from democracy but aristocracy	Montesquieu	15%
His rule as one of the Enlightened absolutists established Prussia as one of the great powers in Europe	Frederick II	8%
Argued that the mind ordered what it experienced and concluded things based on its own internal ideas	Hume	8%
Civil liberties are natural rights of human beings, and Civil society is best when based on a social contract where citizens are guaranteed individual liberty and laws are made in the public’s best interest	Jean-Jaques Rousseau	8%
Freedom was a means to an end of personal choice and individuality	John Stuart Mill	8%
Writings greatly shaped philosophical thought in Europe	Kant	8%
Used internal reforms to strengthen her territory including separating executive and judicial functions and reorganized offices such as defense, commerce and foreign affairs Curbed some of the power of the Roman Catholic church and separated education from church control Patronized the arts and intellectual leaders of the time	Maria Theresa	8%
Believed representative government was the best because it pushed citizens to participate	John Stuart Mill	0%