Enlightenment Philosophers IB Euro, AP Euro

Phiospher who wrote "Two Treatesies on Government"

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Condorcet

• Voltaire

Philosopher who wrote "Essays Concerning Human Understanding."

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

said that supply and demand would move towards a natural equilibrium because an “invisible hand” would move them to intersect at a point that would maximize satisfaction.

• Adam Smith
• Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Montesquieu
• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke

Theory of Knowledge. Asks questions about how we know what we know

• Epistemology

• Tabula Rasa

• Empiricism

• Enlightenment

Knowledge that comes from careful observation that is observed with your senses.

• Empiricism

• Epistemology

• Enlightenment

• Absolutism

Rights that are so obvious that they should be given to ALL men simply because they are human

• Natural Rights

• Empiricism

• Divine rights

• Tabula Rasa

They focused on proving ideas can be proven by reason, instead of by religious faith.

• Enlightenment thinkers
• Republic of Letters
• Middle Ages
• Ancient Greece
• French Revolution

 tried to collect all of the ideas of the Enlightenment into one volume to “change the way people think.”

• Diderot
• John Locke
• Thomas Hobbes
• Rousseau
• Newton

Wanted a  “natural religion” where definitions of  good and evil came from reason.

• Voltaire
• Rousseau
• John Locke
• Diderot
• John Locke

sense of justice common to all people that is so obvious it shouldn’t have to be explained. 

• natural rights
• Physiocrats
• empiricism
• blank slate
• epistemology