Enlightenment Thinkers

Hobbes

• Absolutist

• Society is for protection

• W/o government= war

• Leviathan

Locke

• Property protection

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Consent of the Governed

Voltaire

• Religious toleration

• Critical of Catholic Church

• Defend right to speak

Diderot

• Encyclopedia

• Freedom of knowledge

Beccaria

• Innocent until proven guilty

• Against death penalty

• On Crimes and Punishments

Montesquieu

• Spirit of the Laws

• System of checks and balances

Rousseau

• Social Contract

• Society ruins man

• Government directly by people

• Nature is freedom

• Women should not have a higher education

Wollstonecraft

• Vindication of the Rights of Women

• Women are not inferior

• Women deserve a higher education

• Men have made women inferior

Social Contract

An agreement people make w their government

State of Nature

Mankind w/o society/govt