ENLIGHTENMENT THINKERS

JOHN LOCKE

• seventeenth century english thinker
• Natural Rights: All humans were born reasonable and moral
• 1690
• England
• He Influenced other future thinkers

ROUSSEAU

• French thinker
• Social contract: wanted less rules, and more freedom
• 1762
• France
• Influenced people to not allow society to control there every move

MONTESQUIEU

• French thinker
• The spirit of laws: discussed goverments throughout history
• 1748
• France
• Created threee branches if goverment still usec today( legislative, executive, judicial )

THOMAS HOBBS

• Sevententh century englsh thinker
• Social contract - Believed people were naturally cruel, selfish, rude
• 1651
• England
• Influenced the creation of avdolute monarchy

VOLTAIRE

• French poet, historian, esssayist
• Philosophy: to say what I think
• 1750-1770
• France
• Influenced future revolters ( rebels )

DIDEROT

• French thinker
• Encyclopedia ( 28 volumes )
• 1751
• France
• Influenced future learning ( book= 4,000 copies )

ADAM SMITH

• Scottish economist
• The Wealth of Nations: a free matket should be allowed to regulate buissnesss avtuvity
• 1776
• Scotland
• Effected future market owners