Quick reminder of what is the enlightenment.

Scientific successes convinced educated Europeans of the power of human reason. Natural law, or rules discoverable by reason, govern scientific forces such as gravity and magnetism. Why not, then, use natural law to better understand social, economic, and political problems?

Listed below is a table you must complete outlining a handful of the philosophers of the enlightenment, their basic views, a work they produced. The first two philosophers that we discussed in class have been completed for you. Complete the chart and then answer the questions on the back

Philosopher

Basic Belief
people were naturally cruel, greedy, and selfish. If not strictly controlled, they would fight, rob, and oppress one another. Life in the state of naturewithout laws or other controlwould be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.-Believed in Social Contract He thought people were basically reasonable and moral. Further, they had certain natural rights, or rights that belonged to all humans from birth. These included the right to life, liberty, and property. Laws were necessary to protect rights

Publication Leviathan

Hobbes

Locke

Two Treatises of Government

Montesquieu

Voltaire

Diderot

Rousseau

Wollstonecraft

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Hobbes

Locke

Montesquieu

Voltaire

Diderot

Rousseau

Wollstonecraft