Question

Which of the following was NOT a key political thinker of the enlightenment?

A.) Thomas Paine
B.) Ralph Waldo Emerson
C.) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
D.) Voltaire

Answer 1

B.) Ralph Waldo Emerson

Although one of the most influential American poet and essayist in the mid-nineteenth century, Ralph Waldo Emerson was not a key political thinker in the Age of Enlightenment.