Name ________________________

Enlightenment Dinner Party

The year is 1730, and the Age of Enlightenment is in full swing! You are lucky to be a part of it and are asked to
host a Salon or dinner party for 6 of the most prominent people of this period. To make your dinner a success,
each person should be seated next to someone they have things to talk about. The guest list includes:

Mary Wollstonecraft Jean Jacques Rousseau John Locke

Thomas Hobbes Voltaire Montesquieu

In each square, write the name of the philosopher. Then figure out who they would most like to talk to and seat
that person next to them. In the space provided, explain what made you seat them that way and what they will
talk about.

Why are they Why are they

seated next to seated next to
each other and each other and
what will they talk what will they talk
about? about?