ENLIGHTENMENT
THINKERS
“Man is born free, but
everywhere is in chains.”
--Rousseau
THOMAS HOBBES
1588 - 1679
• England
• Wrote “Leviathan”
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JOHN LOCKE
1632 - 1704
• England
• Wrote “Two Treatises on Government”
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BARON de MONTESQUIEU
1689 - 1755
• France
• Wrote “Spirit of the Laws”
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FRANCOIS VOLTAIRE
1694 - 1778
• France
• Wrote “Candide” and
“Letters on the English”
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JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
1712 - 1778
• Switzerland
• Wrote “Social Contract”
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MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
1759 - 1797
• England
• Wrote “Vindication on the Rights of
Woman”
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ADAM SMITH
1723 - 1790
• Scotland
• Wrote “The Wealth of Nations”
• Physiocrat – used reason to find
natural laws for economic reforms
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