Expansionismo y Liberalism - Enlightenment Thinkers Flashcards
Who created the 3 natural rights and who is supposed to protect them?
Locke
The government
What are the 3 natural rights?
1- Life
2- Liberty
3- Property
Who wanted to divide the power of the government?
Montesquieu
Mon-tes-quieu
What were the 3 divisions of the power?
Executive, Legislative and Judicial
Who wrote the Social contract?
Rousseau
What is the main idea of the Social Contract?
The government protects the people, and the people respects the government.
Who wanted to separate the church from the government?
Voltaire
Mention a quote from Hobbes
“Homo homini lupus est” (The man is the wolf of the man)
“Curiosity is the lust of the mind”
“Life is nasty, brutish and short”
Mention a quote from Locke
“What worries you, masters you”
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common”
Mention a quote from Montesquieu
“Liberty is the right to do what the laws permit”
“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them”
Mention a quote from Rousseau
“To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness”
“People who know little are usually good talkers, while men who know much say little”
Mention a quote from Voltaire
“Common sense is not so common”
“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers”
When and who published the Leviathan?
Hobbes
In 1632
Who helped publish the Encyclopedia?
Diderot
What is liberalism?
A political ideology that wants to place people in the center of the social question, to defend their freedom and rights even against the government
