Miscellaneous
Enlightenment Thinkers
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Yeah, this has to do with the Enlightenment
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Most of the Enlightenment thinkers came from these two countries
Britain and France
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"Society needs a strong, absolute monarch because people are downright crummy and awful." is something he would say.
Thomas Hobbes
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This Enlightenment thinker wrote about economics.
Adam Smith
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Author who supported freedom of speech and religion and tolerance of various beliefs
Voltaire
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Think government not trees! Montesquieu believed government should be divided into these three branches.
Executive, legislative, and judicial
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This is the name we give to Enlightenment thinkers "À la française"
Philosophes
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"I do not agree with a word you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it!"
Voltaire
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Whose daughter wrote about this guy?
Mary Wollstonecraft's daughter, Mary Shelly (when she was 18!)
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He said you have the right to give your government the boot if they don't protect your rights!
John Locke
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"Let it be!" This expression means that government should not interfere with how businesses operate.
Laissez-Faire
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"Nothing artificial for me!" Locke would say your rights are.....
Natural
(Natural Rights)
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"Hey! People are generally good and reasonable! Not only that, but they have rights that the government should protect."
John Locke
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These are the three fundamental rights that Locke said we have.
Life, Liberty, and Property
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He believed that government should be separated into three branches - to provide a system of checks and balances.
Montesquieu
300
He was the biggest advocate of direct democracy and that titles of nobility should be abolished.
Rousseau
400
An intellectual movement that stressed reason and logic and the power of individuals to solve problems.
the Enlightenment
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"Hey dudes, women should have equal access to education" is what she said.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Voltaire was famous for using humor and ridicule to criticize problems in society. We call that type of writing.....
Satire
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He was the biggest pessimist of the bunch
Thomas Hobbes.
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If people hand over some of their rights to a king, they get this in return according to Hobbes.
law and order
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The Enlightenment inspired these events in places like the the American Colonies, France, and Haiti
Revolutions
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He thought that in the natural state people are good - It's civilization itself that corrupts mankind
Rousseau
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The majority of European nations had this type of government before the Enlightenment.
Monarchies (rule by a king or queen)
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According to Locke, a government's power comes from this.
the consent of the people
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This book by Adam Smith is considered to be "the Bible of Capitalism"
The Wealth of Nations