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p6.2 enlightenment
p6.2 enlightenment in europe
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| enlightment | new intellectual movement that stressed reason and though and the power of individuals to solve problem |
| thomas hobbes | expressed his views in a work called leviathan |
| john locke | believed that people could learn from experience and improve themselves |
| philosophers | social critics of this period in france |
| monestesquieu | devoted himself to the study of political balanced country of his own day |
| rousseau | was passionately commited to indivdual freedom |
| mary wollstonecraft | women picked up these themes publised essay "a vindication of the right of women" 1792 |
| emilie du chatelet | aristocrat trained as a mathematician and physicist, fortunate enough to receive an education in sciences, translating newtons work from latin to french |