enlightenment quiz Flashcards
Thomas Hobbes
needs absolute monarch,evil/selfish
John Locke
3-life,liberty,and property and government needed to protect people for that
Beccaria
no torture/no death penalty
Voltaire
separate church and state,religious tolerance,freedom of speech
Joseph II reforms
-abolished serfdom
-freedom of religion
-created hospitals
Montesquieu
3 branches of government,separation of power
Diderot
encyclopedia-everyones ideas
Rousseau
gov+people have social contract-general will(majority rules)
A. Smith
economist,capitalism>mercantilism
Mary Wollstonecraft
political/educational equality for women
Frederick II “the great” reforms
-religious freedom
-promoted education
-freed serfs
Olympe de gouges
total gender equality
Kant
science/morality are separate
Maria Theresa(Austria) reforms
-centralized power
-increased military
-reduced torture
-improved tax system
Catherine the Great reforms
-improved education
-restricted torture
-some religious tolerance
Catherine the Great not so enlightened ruler
-increased serfdom
-abolished taxes for nobles
-gave church land to nobles
