| 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 |
