enlightenment thinkers (castro's class❤️)

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Who believed people are naturally selfish and need a strong ruler to maintain order?

Thomas Hobbes

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Who argued that people have natural rights: life, liberty, and property?

John Locke

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What thinker believed in the general will and the idea of a social contract?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Who introduced the idea of separation of powers in government?

Baron de Montesquieu

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Which Enlightenment thinker defended freedom of speech and religion?

Voltaire

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Who argued for equal education and rights for women?

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Which thinker wanted to reform criminal justice and end torture?

Cesare Beccaria

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Who edited the Encyclopédie to spread Enlightenment knowledge?

Denis Diderot