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Enlightenment thinkers - Coggle Diagram
Enlightenment thinkers
Voltaire
He defended tolerance, freedom of religious belief, reason and freedom of speech in people.
He use a very powerful weapon that he had to defend this, his weapon were the words.
He fought against the worst enemies of humans, superstition, prejudice and intolerance
Rousseau
He believed the best government was the one that was formed by the people and guided by the " genreal will " of society.
He was against some Hobbes ideas about the social contract, he said that the social contract was an agreement of free individuals to create a society and a government.
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He said that every person was equal, and that titles of nobility had to disappear.
Locke
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He held the idea that people are the real rulers in a land, and the revolution of this people if any unjuste ruler was ruling them, to rebele.
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He said that people had three natural rights, freedom, property and life.
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Hobbes
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This idea came out after the Civil War in England, and Hobbes ended in the conclusion that humans are selfish and wicked. So this would end in a war where every man would fight against every man.
Absolute Monarchy as a government,
He had a pesimist idea of humans, he didn't trust very much in humans.
Montesquieu
He took some ideas of their division of power, but he add that any group or individual could reach the maximum power of the government.
His ideas were taken for lots of countries, but also for the United States Constitution.
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He said that the best government was the one that was divided into two or three. He liked the idea of division of power.
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