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Enlightenment
Question | Answer |
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Ideas Shared | critical nature hostility towards religion and government |
Philosophes | spread ideas |
Salons | hosted by the upper class. mostly ran by women |
Thomas Hobbes | -absolute monarchy -people do not have the right to rebel against government - violence and disorder natural for humans |
John Locke | - people naturally reasonable and moral - natural rights (life, liberty, property) -influenced Thomas Jefferson |
Montesquieu | - Influenced us constitution - all branches should have equal power -promoted democracy |
Voltaire | - mocked church -promoted freedom of speech, religion and press |
Denis Diderot | - created first encyclopedia - sent to prison |
Deism | -enlightenment thinkers practiced - Deity created the world and did not interfere with history -belief in abstract and remote deity |
Women | - stayed at home - equality and freedom were not something for women - Mary Wollstonecraft |
Arts | - revived greek and roman - |
Rousseau | social contract |