| NAME |
 |
|
| INFO |
|
|
| WORKS |
|
|
| Montesquieu |
criticized French institutions, 3 types of govt, checks and balances (separation of powers), politically active nobles |
Persian Letters, The Spirit of the Law |
| Voltaire |
admired English, Deism - God created universe but lets it run naturally, religious toleration - Cancide |
Philosophic Letters on the English, Treatsie on Toleration |
| Diderot |
spread Enlight. ideas, criticized Christianity, Materialism |
Encyclopedia |
| Francoic Quesnay |
land is wealth - achieved by agriculture, state revenue only come from land tax, rejected mercantilism, "laissez-faire" - no govt regulation of economy |
natural laws of economics |
| Adam Smith |
attacked mercantilism, LABOR was wealth, govt only to protect (army), defend people (police), and keep up public works
|
The Wealth of Nations |
| Paul d'Hollbach |
everything matter in motion, humans machines, atheism, materialism |
System of Nature |
| Marie-Jean de condorcet |
humans can be perfect, 10 stages of history - 10th Age of Perfection |
The Progress of the Human Mind |
| Rousseau |
society governed by general will, all should be educated, people need to participate in laws, property the source of crime |
Emile, The Social Contract, Discourse on the Origins of the Inequality of Mankind |
| Beccaria |
against capital punishment, deterrents - not brutality, imprisonment best |
On Crimes and Punishment |
| Mary Wollstonecraft |
women don't have to obey men, if women reason, same rights as men, equal right w/men in politics and education |
Vindication of the Rights of Women |
| Marie-Therese de Geoffrin |
owned a salon, spread ideas of Enlight. |
continued Encyclopedia |
or...
