APWH Enlightenment Thinkers Flashcards
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| 45705509 | Thomas Hobbes | social contract: individuals will give up a certain amount of freedom so that their government will be more powerful and protect them | 0 | |
| 45705510 | John Locke | natural rights: he believed that people could learn from experience and improve themselves/ there were certain rights government must protect (life, liberty, property) | 1 | |
| 45705511 | Voltaire | freedom of religious belief / fought for reason, tolerance and freedom of speech | 2 | |
| 45705512 | Montesquieu | separation of powers (government should be divided into separate branches so that one group cannot over-power another group) / checks and balances in government | 3 | |
| 45705513 | Jean-Jacques Rouseau | individual freedom (as human interacted with civilization, they became corrupted + they would lose certain individual freedom because civilization would take them away and limit their freedoms) | 4 | |
| 45705514 | Beccaria | wanted to reform the criminal justice system (so criminals wouldn't be abused or mistreated); he mainly believed that capital punishment (death penalty) should be abolished | 5 | |
| 45705515 | Mary Wollstonecraft | women and men need equal education | 6 | |
| 45705516 | Adam Smith | was considered the "Father of Modern Economics": studied the individual person / used research to see how it can improve the economy ($) / said that human's desires to achieve more allowed for Economic Progress | 7 |