Age Of Reason Flashcards
Tabula Rasa (blank mind)
John Locke
Aim of Locke
Transform society by exposing it to the right influences
World machine operating based on Natural Laws and used reason to answer questiojs about society
Isaac Newton
Describe a Philosophe
Comes from the nobility and middle class
Who wrote Spirit of the Laws and what were topics in it
Baron de Montesquieu
Study of the governments which included separation of powers namely Judicial, Executive and Legislative which limit power through a system of checks and balances
Full name of Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot
Charles-Louis de Secondat (M), Francois Marie Arouet (V), Denis Diderot
What did Voltaire contribute to philosophy
Deism
What is Deism
Religious philosophy based on reason and natural law; mechanic created the clock and runs on its own natural laws
What was the Encyclopedia and who wrote it
Classified dictionary of sciences, trades and arts. Diderot aimed to change general way of thinking
Founder of modern social science of economics
Adam Smith
Laissez-Faire
State shouldn’t interrupt the play of natural economic forces
Who wrote The Wealth of the Nations
3 roles of the government
Protect society from invasion, defend citizens from injustice and keep works that the lone person could not afford (Montesquieu)
Who wrote the Discourse on the Origins of the Inequality if Mankind which talked about preservation of private property
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Social Contract(1762)
A society agrees to be governed by its general will
Mary Wollstonecraft
Women are able to reason therefore should have equal rights to men
