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Enlightenment Era: Quick Overview and Key Figures

Learn about the Enlightenment period, key ideas, influential figures, and terms such as natural rights, social contract, and enlightened despots. Explore the impact of philosophers like Montesquieu, Adam Smith, and Rousseau.

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Enlightenment Era: Quick Overview and Key Figures

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  1. Quiz quick review

  2. Enlightenment - new ideas were brought forth on how to make government better. Salon – social gathering of thinkers natural laws - Rulesof 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 to know

  3. 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 Terms cont.

  4. 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 smithapples at the market) Jean Jacques Rousseau – people were basically good and were corrupted by the evils of society (Rosy view of society) People to know

  5. 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) People cont.

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