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TERMS TO KNOW

Enlightenment - new ideas were brought forth on how to make government better.

Salon – social gathering of thinkers

natural laws - Rules of conduct

natural rights - belong to all humans from birth, such as life, liberty, and property

social contract - An agreement by which people gave up their freedom to a powerful government in order to prevent chaos

TERMS CONT.

Enlightened Despot

Philosophe – philosophy lover of wisdom

laissez faire – lazy government / buy things at a fair

Censorship

Physiocrat – thinkers for economic reform physical movement of the economy

PEOPLE TO KNOW

Who are our 3 enlightened despots? Catherine the Great, Joseph II, Frederick the Great

Baron de Montesquieu – divide government into branches (a mountain divides a country…)

Adam Smith – economist, importance of the free market (buy granny smith apples at the market)

Jean Jacques Rousseau – people were basically good and were corrupted by the evils of society

(Rosy view of society)

PEOPLE CONT.

Thomas Hobbes - thought people were naturally greedy and cruel (hater)

John Locke - believed all people had natural rights and people had the right to overthrow the government

(love or Lock – you’re rights are key)

Denis Diderot – Wrote a Encyclopedia – a collection of Enlightenment writings (Dictionary)

Voltaire - used wit and sarcasm to expose governmental abuses of power (volume, venom)