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Enlightenment
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |