Thomas Hobbes:

• believed in a absolute monarch

• religious practices are for social purposes

• women are equal to men

• humans are evil and nasty

John Locke:

• humans ability to work together to achieve goals

• religious beliefs should be an individual belief

• share property and give women power

• behavior shaped by experiences and environment

Voltaire:

• government should not be influenced by religion

• freedom of religion

• keep religion separate from state affairs to ensure that all citizens can practice their beliefs without governmental interference.

• women were equal to receiving what others have

• humans were evil

Montesquieu:

• introduced the division of powers (checks and balances)

• not religious but believed in divine being

• women were weaker than men and obey men but make good decision makers

• tendency towards evil

Jean Jacques Rousseau

• direct democracy (everyone voted to express the general will)

• religious beliefs were inevitable (no state founded without religion)

• Limits role to women caring and they can get education but it is different than men and is lesser

• people were inherently good, unselfish, non violent.