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
