CW #6: Enlightenment Thinkers

Thinker Major Idea (Your own words) Ideas use in the World Today

Example: He thought people Example: We have laws to believed everyone is motivated help regulate people’s Thomas Hobbes by self-interest, so rules are behavior needed to keep control

John Locke

Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet)

Baron de Montesquieu

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Cesare Beccaria

Mary Wollstonecraft

Denis Diderot 1. According to Thomas Hobbes, what would life be like without a government?

2. What are the three natural rights according to John Locke?

3. How does Locke’s view of human nature differ from that of Hobbes?

4. What were the five beliefs of the philosophes (French philosophers)?

5. What advantages did Montesquieu see in the separation of powers?

6. Why do you think the issue of education was important to both Astell and Wollstonecraft?