enlightenment thinkers
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Enlightenment Thinkers
John Locke3 concepts of gov’t:
• Consent of the goverened
• a social contract between a fair gov’t & responsible citizens
• right to revolution
• Locke believed Property was the most impt. of his natural rights!
Friedrich Melchior
• Key figure in spread of enlightenment ideas - French
• Wrote a cultural newsletter, edited for the benefit of foreign sovereigns and nobility
Montesquieu• French• College educated -
lawyer• Political
Philosopher• Explained how
government can be preserved from corruption
Jean Jacques Rousseau
• one of the most influential books of republican thought
• proposed a form of contract that should grant people liberty
Mary Astell
• Not born into wealth/nobility
• Considered the first feminist philosopher
• Supported education of women
Mary Wollstonecraft
• British• Feminist writer• Established a girls school in Newington
Green• Contributed to the publication
Analytical Review• “society breeds ‘gentle domestic
brutes’, a confined existence makes women frustrated and transforms them into tyrants over their children and servants”
Voltaire
• French Philosopher• Exiled three times• He argued in favor of
"deism”
Thomas Hobbes• English Political Philosopher• main concern is the problem of
social and political order: how human beings can live together in peace and avoid the danger and fear of civil conflict
• “state of nature” that closely resembles civil war – a situation of universal insecurity, where all have reason to fear violent death and where rewarding human cooperation is all but impossible.
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