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- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Diderot
- Voltaire
- Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the first advocates for women’s rights. She believed that women and men should be equal. Wollstonecraft wanted women to be able to go to school to learn, and she wanted them to be able to vote.
- Rousseau
- Diderot contributed articles covering nearly every possible subject that you can think of. Some criticized many things in society that people didn't believe in, attacked the church, government, slave trade, war, taxes, tourtues , and more. The French authorities didn't like his critical writings so they imprisoned him and many other philosophers.
- Montesquieu
- Voltaire was a French writer who also goes by Francois-Marie Arout; exempted the spirit of enlightenment. He wrote about the nobility, French monarchy, and the religious controls of the church. He was put in jail twice for his attacks on the old order. His defense was for freedom of speech. When he was back in France he oiled attack everything that he thought was a superstition.
- Thomas Hobbes
- Rousseau wrote about how people are naturally good, but the environment tends to make them bad. He believed that people could have their own opinions and thoughts. Although philosophers disliked absolute monarchy most of them liked the idea of enlightened despotism which was what Rousseau believed. By 1780 people started to accept Rousseau’s philosophy.
- John Locke disagreed with Thomas Hobbes because Locke believed that people kept some of their rights. He believed that people kept their rights to life, freedoms and the right to own property. Locke believed that the ruler’s job was to protect these rights. Locke believed that government could not limit people’s natural rights, and the job of the government was to protect these rights. A ruler could not have absolute power, and, if they did not protect natural rights, they should be removed.
- Thomas Hobbes believed that people are born into a state of anarchy, and he did not like the chaos. He believed that people chose a leader to keep them safe. Hobbes believed that people gave the ruler absolute power and maintained only their right to life. Hobbes believed that people are naturally selfish, and they do not care about their fellow man. Hobbes believed that only the strong would survive unless the ruler protected them. Hobbes believed people give up personal freedoms so that the group can be safe.
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