Enlightenment thinkers
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- Marie_Therese Geoffrin
- Salon host.
- Cesare Beccaria
- Crime and Punishment
- Rousseau
- Civil Liberties. "the natural vs. the assimilated state". Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- "A vindication on the rights of wo/man" Support Rights
- Lavoisier
- Father of modern Chemistry, named oxygen/Hydrogen
- Claude Helveticus
- wrote "On Mind". Atheistic.
- Pierre Bayle
- Religious toleration/ faith cannot be justified by reason
- Benjamin Franklin
- "the poor richards almanac"
- David Hume
- Prove naturalism and imperialism. Deterministic and Free-will-istic.
- D"Alembert
- Wrote the encyclopedia
- Locke
- Tabula Rasa. Social contract. Civil Liberties. Natural rights.
- Francois Quesnay
- Agriculture and property = wealth
- Joeseph II
- Edict of toleration. Everything for the people, nothing by the people.
- Baron D'Holbach
- ATHEIST
- De Condorcet
- Destroy inequality in countries.
- Mozart
- traditons aren't progressive.
- Montesquieu
- Checks and Balances. "Spirit of the law" Popularized seperation of powers.
- Diderot
- Wrote encyclopedia. Skeptic.
- Kant
- Universal Laws. Moral Codes
- Joeseph Priestly
- Aliented oxygen from air
- Thomas Paine
- the age of reason. British monarchy = bad. Get away from that gov.
- Adam Smith
- The Wealth of Nations. The "Invisible Hand" Laissez-faire
- Madame Du Chatlet
- women should be happy
- Voltaire
- Priased English gov. Religion is necessary to regulate masses. We invented God.