AP EURO: Enlightenment

Baruch Spinoza

God and nature are one

humans did stuff due to outside circumstances

John Locke

human ideas come from experience

natural rights - life, liberty, property

Montesquieu

balance of power

divide power among classes

Voltaire

humans need a monarch to govern

deism

religious tolerance

Denis Diderot

Encyclopedia- Enlightenment thought

Rousseau

individual freedoms

monarch must uphold general will

Immanuel Kant

private lives must obey laws

absolutist and monarchist

David Hume

blank slate

experience shapes us and stories

Adam Smith

Wealth of Nations

supply and demand

free market

Public sphere

where the sharing of ideas took place

salons, coffee houses, libraries

Race

taxonomy was applied to humans

scientific racism

Europeans started as nonwhites

Women

men and women are different and should play different roles

women are essential to population growth

Role of Kings

rule for the people

people can remove the king

tolerate religion