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| 88816149 | Locke | Enlightenment - blank slate or tablula rosa - minds are blank at birth, and through our lives we gain knowledge. the natural rights - life, liberty and property - born with them and can't be taken away.The power of the government comes from the consent of the people. Gov purpose to protect people's rights. If it fails, people get to revolt. His book was called Two Treatises. | 0 | |
| 88816150 | Voltaire | Enlightenment - tolerance, freedom of religion, freedom of speech. believed in natural rights, however, he thought the best way to protect those rights was through the rule of a good king. | 1 | |
| 88816151 | Hobbs | Enlightenment - all men were brutish, bad, and all people had to give up personal freedoms so they could have a strong ruler who could maintain peace and order. | 2 | |
| 88816152 | Rousseau | Enlightenment - people had to give up stuff for the good of the whole and the good of the majority. He wrote the Social Contract. | 3 | |
| 88816153 | Diderot | Enlightenment - wrote the first encyclopedia | 4 | |
| 88816154 | Adam Smith | Enlightenment - economist who believed in capitalism. He believed in the laws of supply and demand. He believed in the invisible hand-laissez faire-leave it alone, let it be. It will fix itself eventually. | 5 | |
| 88816155 | Wolstonecraft | Enlightenment - she is a feminist | 6 | |
| 88816156 | Montesquieu | Enlightenment - separation of powers, a government with internal checks and balances. | 7 | |
| 88816157 | Cesare Becarria | Enlightenment - opposed to all forms of human torture | 8 |
