Enlightened Thinkers

Question 1

Voltaire ideas and works

Answer 1

Works-the age of Louis, examined contemporary society and critised it
-candide
-philosophical dictionary attacked as attack on decadent customs
-main target was the church
-tolerance
-privileged nuisance (the church)
-den of superstitutions
-held human thought in bondage
-accredited to violence of revolution in religious change, abrupt, no stop at Protestantism
-favours englosh system of govt,

Question 2

Momatsquie works and ideas

Answer 2

-rule of law
-separation of powers
-exposed privileges of upper estates, critic of estates system,wanted feudalism to be overthrown (AD)
-constitutional monarchy , fear of mob rule and that elite benefitted from understanding of how to govern (education needed)
-parliamentary democracy ideal
-ordinary man gets chance to be leader

Question 3

Rousseau works and ideas

Answer 3

-the social contract
-collective will of the people is sovereign power!!
-man was born free but everywhere is in chains
-all power must be directed from the nation, sovereignty to the people
-duties equal for all
-monarchy only serve the interests of the ruling class
-messiah of revolution
-wrote Emile
-rejected religion
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Question 4

Diderot works and ideas

Answer 4

-enclopedia
-scientific theorists
-critic of inequality
-reforms necessary for development of the nation
-economist
-total economic freedom