The Enlightenment Flashcards
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Social Contract
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-agreement by which people make rules, creating govrn.
2
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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- “Vindication of the Rights of Women”
- Argued for rights of women
3
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Beccaria
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-Criminal justice and argued against torture in justice system
4
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Montesquieu
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- Studied political liberty and proposed the seperation of powers in gov.
- Gov. needed to be checked
5
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Rousseau
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-Believed reason, science, and art improved people
-Civilization corrupted people’s natural goodness
“Champion of freedom”
-direct democracy with social contract
6
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Voltaire
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- Used satire against opponents and targeted high individuals
- fought for tolerance, reason, adn freedom
- real name Francios marie arouet
7
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John Locke
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- Believed humans were self-gov. and can learn to improve
- favored self-gov. over monarchy
- People had natural rights
- People had the power to overthrow gov. (democracy)
- social contract
8
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Thomas Hobbes
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- Humans were naturally selfish
- social contract
- Believed only absolute monarchs could control people
9
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Enlightenment
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-1700s European movement in which thinkers attempted to apply the principles of reason and scientific method to all aspects of society
