enlightenment

Question 0

john Locke

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english, natural rights, life liberty property, popular sovereignty (rule by consent of people), right to rebel if gov doesn’t protect natural rights

Question 1

philosophes

Answer 1

reason, progress, happiness, nature, liberty

Question 2

thomas Hobbes

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english, people are born selfish/evil, self gov never works, lives during english civil way, give up rights to strong leader, LEVIATHAN WAS HIS BOOK, rule of majority = unfair to minority

Question 3

France at time

Answer 3

absolute monarchy, no religious tolerance, Louis XIV, censorship

Question 4

voltaire

Answer 4

french, freedom of speech/religion, satire, prison and kicked out of france multiple times

Question 5

Montesquieu

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french, separation of powers, executive legislative judicial

Question 6

Rousseau

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french, civilization corrupts natural goodness, best gov is one that governs least, democracy

Question 7

beccaria

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italy, On Crime and Punishment, gov should never use torture

Question 8

Mary Wollstonecraft

Answer 8

education and political rights of women, On Vindication of the Rights of Women (boys need smart mothers) (response to Voltaire), daughter was Shelly, died in childbirth