Enlightenment Thinkers Flashcards by Dahlia Nemes | Brainscape

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John Locke

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Two Treatises on Civil Government (1690)

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Montesquieu

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The Spirit of the Laws (1748)

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Rousseau

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The Social Contract (1762)

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D’Alembert and Diderot

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The Encyclopedia (1751)

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Division of Powers

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Legislative Power: Parliament.

-Executive Power: the king/president/prime minister

Judiciary was to be independent

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Voltaire

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Enemy of intolerance and religious superstition

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Rousseau

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-human beings = good by nature, but society corrupts them.

wrote The Social Contract in 1762

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