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45 Cards in this Set
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Natural rights (Life, Liberty, and Property) |
Locke |
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Separation of powers |
Montesquieu |
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Freedom of thought and expression |
Voltaire |
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Abolishment of torture |
Beccaria |
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Religious freedom |
Voltaire |
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Women's equality |
Wollstonecraft |
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Believed that only a powerful government could ensure an orderly Society-Rebellion must be suppressed |
Hobbes |
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Believed in a social contract |
Hobbes |
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Believe the most efficient type of government was a despot, an absolute ruler |
Hobbes |
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Believed that before Society was organized human life was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" |
Hobbes |
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Leave the best kind of government has limited power-argued against the absolute rule of one person |
Locke |
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Believe that people have the right to overthrow a government that fails its obligations to protect people's rights |
Locke |
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Believed people have natural rights life liberty and property |
Locke |
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Believed in a social contract was created in order to protect the natural rights of people |
Locke |
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Believe that before Society was organized humans lived in a state of equality and freedom rather than a state of War |
Locke |
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Believed in checks and balances of government |
Montesquieu |
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Believed in three branches of government legislative executive and judicial |
Montesquieu |
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Believed in separation of power |
Montesquieu |
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Identify three basic kinds of government Republic's despotism and monarchies |
Montesquieu |
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Spend time at Frederick the Great's Court |
Voltaire |
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Criticized French society and government including the legal system and press censorship |
Voltaire |
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Criticized the Catholic Church |
Voltaire |
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Wrote Candide |
Voltaire |
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Believed in freedom of speech |
Voltaire |
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Was a big supporter of deism: a religious philosophy based on reason and natural law |
Voltaire |
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Created a 28 volume encyclopedia |
Diderot |
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Contributed to the organization of knowledge |
Diderot |
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This philosophe denounced the slave trade |
Diderot |
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Supported the idea of a social contract |
Rousseau |
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Believed in Freely elected government |
Rousseau |
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He saw a balance between heart and mind, between emotion and reason |
Rousseau |
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Argued that people had adopted laws and government in order to preserve their private property |
Rousseau |
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Faith in the general will or the best conscience from the people |
Rousseau |
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Called for equal education of boys and girls |
Wollstonecraft |
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A British feminist |
Wollstonecraft |
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Many see this philosophe as a founder of the modern European and modern movement for women's rights |
Wollstonecraft |
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Argue that the enlightenment was based on an Ideal of Reason in all human beings |
Wollstonecraft |
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Support of the laissez Faire: little government intervention in the economy |
Smith |
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Supported a free market economy AKA capitalism |
Smith |
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Economist and physiocrat |
Smith |
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Wrote The Wealth of Nations |
Smith |
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Gave the government three basic roles: protecting Society from invasion, defending citizens from Injustice, and keeping |
Smith |
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Argued that punishments should not be exercises of brutality |
Beccaria |
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Opposed capital punishment |
Beccaria |
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The enlightenment is often referred to as |
The Age of Reason |
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