Enlightenment Quiz reveiw

Beccaria

Criminal punishment should be reasonable. No capital punishment (death penalty).

Diderot

Spread the ideas of the enlightenment by publishing them in order to change people’s thinking.

Locke

Natural rights = life, liberty, proproty (decleration of independance)

Montesquieu

Governments function best when there is a sparation of powers and checks and balences between the branches of government.

Rousseau

Education should foster children’s natural instints and help develop both reason and emotions.

Smith

Laissez-fair capitalism (let the people do what they want)

Voltaire

Religious toleration is important

Wollstonecraft

Because women possess reason, they are entiltled to the same rights as men

Madame Geoffrin

Had a french salon (helped boost sales of philosophes writting)