The Enlightenments

Question 1

Diderot

Answer 1

Put together the first encyclopedia. The idea that humans can know everything.

Question 2

Montesquieu

Answer 2

Wrote about science and politics. Praised constitutional monarchies. Believed in separation of powers, checks and balances.

Question 3

Voltaire

Answer 3

Argued that the world is like a clock, and runs on its own (deism). Against the Catholic church. Wrote the novel Candid, where someone goes on a journey and more and more horrors happen. He said that you should listen to reason and accept the world.

Question 4

Rousseau

Answer 4

Horrible person. Five children, sent them to orphanages. Said the state of nature is good and ideal, and that society and government keeps us from being happy. Democracy is best.
He grows insane.

Question 5

Adam Smith

Answer 5

Scottish. Writes The Wealth of Nations. He believes that people are inherently moral on their own, so we should have a system run by self interest (capitalism).