Enlightenment Philosophers Flashcards
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John Locke
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argued that liberty and property also needed to be respected natural rights
duty of government to protect these rights and if the government did not, the citizens have the right to revolution
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Charles de Montesquieu
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Separation of power into three branches of government
3
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Only good government was one that was really formed with consent of the people
social contract theory
4
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Thomas Hobbes
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Wrote Leviathan in 1660 and argue that if humans were left to their own devices chaos and violence would ensue
best way to protect life is to give total power to an absolute monarch
