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TERMS TO KNOW
Enlightenment - new ideas were brought forth on how to make government better.
Salon – social gathering of thinkers
natural laws - Rules of conduct
natural rights - belong to all humans from birth, such as life, liberty, and property
social contract - An agreement by which people gave up their freedom to a powerful government in order to prevent chaos
TERMS CONT.
Enlightened Despot
Philosophe – philosophy lover of wisdom
laissez faire – lazy government / buy things at a fair
Censorship
Physiocrat – thinkers for economic reform physical movement of the economy
PEOPLE TO KNOW
Who are our 3 enlightened despots? Catherine the Great, Joseph II, Frederick the Great
Baron de Montesquieu – divide government into branches (a mountain divides a country…)
Adam Smith – economist, importance of the free market (buy granny smith apples at the market)
Jean Jacques Rousseau – people were basically good and were corrupted by the evils of society
(Rosy view of society)
PEOPLE CONT.
Thomas Hobbes - thought people were naturally greedy and cruel (hater)
John Locke - believed all people had natural rights and people had the right to overthrow the government
(love or Lock – you’re rights are key)
Denis Diderot – Wrote a Encyclopedia – a collection of Enlightenment writings (Dictionary)
Voltaire - used wit and sarcasm to expose governmental abuses of power (volume, venom)
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