Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Enlightenment Thinkers
- Montesquieu
- Three branches of law
- Legislature
- Kings
- Judiciary
- Checks
- Balances
- Hobbes
- Pessimism
- People will fight if left alone
- Ruled cannot rebel
- Absolute monarchy
- Life
- Brutish
- Short
- Nasty
- Locke
- Optimism
- People are reasonable
- Will co-operate
- government=agreement between people and ruler
- Can rebel if contract is broken
- Basic rights
- Life
- Property
- Liberty
- Voltaire
- Rulers strong but Enlightened
- Educated
- Protected basic rights of people
- Religious Toleration
- Freedom of thought
- “I may not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
- Rousseau
- Human is born good
- Society corrupts
- Majority Will
- General Will
- “Man is born free, and everywhere is in chains”