Enlightenment

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Enlightment

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Exciting time of optimism and probability or the age of Reason

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Thomas Hobbes

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He was an English thinker, he wrote a book about his views on the government called Leviathan

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John Locke

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An English philosopher
He argued that all people were born equal with the natural rights of life liberty and property.

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Jean- Jacques Rousseau

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A French philosopher
In the social contract he wrote "Man is born free but everywhere is in chains."

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Baron de MontisquieuVol

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A French thinker
He argued that the best form of government was a separation of power

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Voltaire

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French Philosopher
Very outspoken
He attacked injustice wherever he saw it coming

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Diderot

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He worked on Encyclopedia for 27 years and published the last volume in 1772. French leaders attacked the encyclopedia because it criticized the church

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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Many believed that women played the role as mother and house wife. So she made a book called A Vindication of the rights of Women

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Adam Smith

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Scottish Economist
Wrote the book the wealth of nations

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Key enlightenment ideas

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