ENLIGHTENMENT THINKERS

John locke• BOOK: «Two treatises of

Government»

• NATURAL RIGHTS: life, liberty, andproperty or belongings.

• SOCIAL CONTRACT exists betweenpeople and their government.

• «If a government does not governjustly, the people have the right tooverthrow that government»

Adam Smith

• Book: «Wealth of the nations»

• He developed the idea laissez-faire economics.

• He believed that in terms ofeconomy the governmentshould do nothing.

• The government shoul protectcitizens from invasions by anenemy but not from poverty

Thomas Hobbes

• Book: «Leviathan»

• He stated that the AbsoluteMonarchy was the best form ofgovernment.

• He thought humans werenaturally selfish and violent.

• Therefore, Humans needed toobey a government.

• The rule of a king must be strongand give people directions.

Voltaire

• He was a poet, novelist,playwright and a philosopher

• Government should toleratereligious ideas

• He claimed for:

• Justice for all

• Free speech

• End of Slave Trade

Montesquieu• Book: «The spirit of Laws»

• Three branches of government:

1. Executive: Enforce the laws

2. Legislative: Make the laws

3. Judicial: Interpret the laws andjudge when they were broken

• This ideas influenced theAmerican Independence Leaders

Dennis Diderot

• Book: Encyclopedia or«Classified Dictionary of theSciences, Arts and Trades»

• He found costumers amongthe French middle classincluding doctors, lawyers andteachers.

• It was translated into otherlanguages and spread theideas of the Enlightenment tothe Americas

John locke• BOOK: «Two treatises of

Government»

• NATURAL RIGHTS: life, liberty, andproperty or belongings.

• SOCIAL CONTRACT exists betweenpeople and their government.

• «If a government does not governjustly, the people have the right tooverthrow that government»

Adam Smith

• Book: «Wealth of the nations»

• He developed the idea laissez-faire economics.

• He believed that in terms ofeconomy the governmentshould do nothing.

• The government shoul protectcitizens from invasions by anenemy but not from poverty

Thomas Hobbes

• Book: «Leviathan»

• He stated that the AbsoluteMonarchy was the best form ofgovernment.

• He thought humans werenaturally selfish and violent.

• Therefore, Humans needed toobey a government.

• The rule of a king must be strongand give people directions.

Voltaire

• He was a poet, novelist,playwright and a philosopher

• Government should toleratereligious ideas

• He claimed for:

• Justice for all

• Free speech

• End of Slave Trade

Montesquieu• Book: «The spirit of Laws»

• Three branches of government:

1. Executive: Enforce the laws

2. Legislative: Make the laws

3. Judicial: Interpret the laws andjudge when they were broken

• This ideas influenced theAmerican Independence Leaders

Dennis Diderot

• Book: Encyclopedia or«Classified Dictionary of theSciences, Arts and Trades»

• He found costumers amongthe French middle classincluding doctors, lawyers andteachers.

• It was translated into otherlanguages and spread theideas of the Enlightenment tothe Americas