The Enlightenment

Philosophe, which classified the information into an encyclopedia:

• Montesquieu

• Diderot

• Newton

• Descartes

Philosophe which introduces the idea of the division of power.

• Diderot

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

Laws exist to preserve society and order and punishment does not have to be brutal. A person accused of a crime should receive a fair and speedy trial. Torture should never be used.

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Sir Isaac Newton

• Cesare Beccaria

If the Enlightenment is about the reason of humans, and women were humans, they were capable of reasoning too, therefore, they should have the same rights as men.

• Mary Shelley

• Catherine The Great

• Mary Wollestonecraft

• Billie Eilish

Natural Rigths...

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Freedom of religion, freedom of expresion, separation of church and state.

• Rousseau

• Hobbes

• Diderot

• Voltaire

An entire society agrees to be governed by its general will. If the government fails to protect the rights... people have the right to kick them out.

• Rousseau

• Diderot

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

The natural state of mankind (the “state of nature”) is a state of war of one man against another, as man is selfish and brutish.

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Isaac Newton

• Voltaire

The father of capitalism... Laissez Faire economics, meaning, the state should leave the economy alone.

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Adam Smith

• Isaac Newton

As well as government oppresses people, men exert the same control with women.

• Mary Shelley

• Mary Wollestonecraft

• Mary Poppins

• Voltaire