The Enlightenment - Philosophes

Natural laws

________- were unchanging principles, discovered via reason that govern all human conduct.

General

________ will is "the best conscience of the people.

divine right

Power should be held by people (democracy) and not via "________.

Physiocrats

________ are french economic thinkers.

free enterprise system

A(n) ________ is when businesses can compete for customers and profit without the government.

State of nature

________- life without laws of other control, it will end in disaster.

Natural rights

________ are "rights that belonged to all humans from birth "Life, liberty, and property.

Hobbes

Wrote Leviathan 1651

Lockes ideal government

has to protect people's natural rights and can be overthrown if it doesnt

Montesquieus Ideas

Dividing Power

Voltaires Ideas

Freedom of Thought