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Hobbes
when he started controversy about how he looked at society -
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Montesquieu
When he pblished The Spirit Of The Laws. Where he talks about how he thinks seperation of powers is the best way to protect liberty. The Legistlative, Executive and Judicial. -
Denis Diderot
He became known espescially by Lettre sur les aveugles.which supported Lockes theory. -
Mocking French Society
Montesquieu had two fictional persian travelers named Usbek and Rica to mock the French. It revealed Euroopean corruption and hypocrisy. -
Voltaire
Voltaire in A Treatise on Toleration that all men are brothers, regardless of religion as they are the same creature created by the same God. -
Cesare Beccaria
Beccaria’s book On Crimes and Punishments exposed tthe horrible injustices that he observed in various European judicial systems which exposed these practices and led to the abolition of many. -
Thomas Jefferson
He was one of the Founding Fathers who signed the Declaration of Independents. Where he called for equality and liberty -
Benjamin Franklin
He was one of the founding Fathers, a politician, an author,diplomat, statesman, and a scientist. -
immanuel Kant
The Critique of Pure Reason was was published in 1781 and is one of the most infulential works in the history of philosophy. -
Olympe de Gouges
She was a French feminist who articulated the rights of women with her Decloration of The Rights of Women. -
Wollstonecraft
Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Women. She wanted an equal education for boys and girls. Education was the only thing she thought women needed.
