Enlightenment Flashcards
(27 cards)
Wrote the Social Contract
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Tabula Rasa
Locke’s Blank Slate-
Encyclopedia
Denis Diderot
Believed that an absolute ruler was the best way to keep a society in check
Thomas Hobbes
Checks and Balances
Montesquieu
Believed in freedom of speech
Voltaire
Argued for Women’s education in The Vindication of the Rights of Women
Mary Wollstonecraft
Was against capital punishment
Cesare Beccaria
Inductive Reasoning
Sir Francis Bacon
Deductive Reasoning
Rene Descartes
Physiocrat
Economic Philosopher
Cogito Ergo Sum
Descartes
Father of Empiricism
Bacon
Laissez Faire
No government intervention
Father of Capitalism
Adam Smith
Three branches of Government
Montesquieu
Heliocentric Universe
Copernicus
Elliptical Orbits
Johannes Kepler
Laws of Gravity
Sir Isaac Newton
Deism
God as a Watchmaker (made but doesn’t interfere
Rationalism
Baruch Spinoza
Government should protect life, liberty and property and should be overthrown if it doesn’t
John Locke
Invisible hand control’s supply and demand
Adam Smith
The Greatest good for the greatest number
Utilitarianism