Enlightenment Thinkers and Their Ideas

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*Front:* Enlightenment

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movement emphasizing reason and individualism

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*Front:* John Locke

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advocating natural rights: life, liberty, property

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*Front:* Social Contract

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government has a responsibility to protect its citizns rights and individuals to right to change the govrernment if that is not happening

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*Front:* Voltaire

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advocating for freedom of speech & separation of church and state

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*Front:* Montesquieu

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promoted thee seperation of powers in government

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*Front:* Rousseau

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in the general will and direct democracy

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*Front:* David Hume

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Promoted the idea of skepticism and developed concepts of money flow with an economy

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*Front:* Laissez-faire

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policy of minimal government interference

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*Front:* Mary Wallstonecraft

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Promoted the importance of educational oppotunities and women's rights

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*Front:* Denis Diderot

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spreading the teachings of the Enlightenment and science through his creation of the Encyclopédie