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The Enlightenment in Europe, Most philosophes believed that reason, …

- - - - Reason Enlightened thinkers believed truth could be
        discovered through reason or logical thinking.
      - Nature The philosophes believed that what was
        natural was also good and reasonable
      - Happiness The philosophes rejected the medieval notion that people should find joy in the hereafter and urged people to seek well-being on earth
      - Progress The philosophes stressed that society and
        humankind could improve
      - Liberty The philosophes called for the liberties that the English people had won in their Glorious Revolution and Bill of Rights
  - - - Montesquieu believed that Britain was the best-governed and most
        politically balanced country of his own day
        
        Montesquieu called this division of power among different branches
        separation of powers
    - - basis for the United States Constitution
- - - - Rousseau
        
        developed many progressive ideas about education
        
        However, he believed that a girl’s education should mainly teach her how to be a helpful wife and mother
        
        He stil was very conservative
  - - - she used Enlightenment arguments about government to criticize the unequal relationship between men and women in marriage.
      - “If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a state, how comes it to be so in a family? . . . If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?”
  - - - A Vindication of the Rights of
        Woman
        
        she disagreed with Rousseau that women’s education should be secondary to men’s
        
        like men, need education to become
        virtuous and useful.
      - urged women to enter
        the male-dominated fields of medicine and politics
- - - - encouraged people to use their own ability to reason in order to
        judge what was right or wrong
      - the importance of the individual in society