The Enlightenment Age

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. A belief accepted as authoritative by some group or school (10)
  2. 6. The beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation (13)
  3. 9. A drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving (10)
  4. 11. The principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation (5)
  5. 12. French philosopher and mathematician (9)

Down

  1. 2. Of or relating to the practice of ___ (10)
  2. 3. English mathematician and physicist (6)
  3. 4. The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group (plural) (6)
  4. 5. A philosophical theory as to what is beautiful (plural) (10)
  5. 7. French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (8)
  6. 8. English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (9)
  7. 9. French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland (8)
  8. 10. A well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world (6)