enlightenment Flashcards

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