Other important philosophers

Question 1

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Answer 1

-“man is born free but everywhere is in chains”
- French enlightens philosopher
- optimistic view on human nature
-belived human beings were born good
- evil was product of corrupt institutions and social arrangements m
-believed that people should follow “general will” (citizen body taken as whole)

Question 2

Voltaire

Answer 2

-Most famous
- belived in freedom of though and expression
-ofter struggled against censorship (state and church)
-hostile towards organized religion, but a believer (vague) spiritually
, or atleast for the need for spirituality in people

Question 3

Denis Diderot

Answer 3

Radical in many views for the time ( atheists, hostile towards monarchies as an institution)
-chief architect behind the encyclopedia project