Euro Midterm Ppl

Voltaire

Speech, media, press

Bacarria

Anti-torture

Montesquieu

separation of powers, checks and balances in gov

Mary Astell

women should have access to to education, marriage→ kingdom is shared power, marriage should be too

Mary Walton Croft

education, argued w Rousseau abt women place in society, women right to vote

Rousseau

anti-Enlightenment, sci and art make barriers between people and their natural state

Adam Smith

capitalism, greed is good, more greed→ more money, wealth is infinite

Locke

Tabula Rasa, experiences form personality, government should only exist to protect ppl’s rights (ALIVE DURING ENG CIVIL WAR)

Hobbes

ppl born with greed, need gov to control and make them do things right→ social order keeps ppl in line (ALIVE DURING ENG CIVIL WAR)

Grotis

natural law→ laws of nature make gov legitimate, valid even without religion, should govern politics

Boudin

compared types of gov, found monarchy only right way, inspire absolutism