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| 17th century English thinker; described his ideas in a work titled Leviathan; he argued that people are naturally cruel, greedy, and selfish people should enter into a social contract |
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| 17th century English thinker; described his ideas in a work titled Two Treatises of Government; he argued that people formed governments to protect their natural rights |
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| influential thinker; studied governments; published The Spirit of the Laws; he felt the best way to protect liberty was to form a government with 3 branches |
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| one of most famous philosophes; he exposed the abuses of his day ie corrupt officials and idle aristocrats |
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| wrote a 28 volume set of books called the Encyclopedia; he wanted to "change the general way of thinking" |
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| believed that people in their natural state were basically good and that society corrupted them; wrote The Social Contract |
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| a Scottish economist; wrote The Wealth of Nations; he argued that the free market should be allowed to regulate business activity; came up with idea of supply and demand |
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| king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786;served as a duty to work for the common good; reduced the use of torture and allowed a free press |
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| empress of Rusia; she believed in the Enlightenment ideas of equality and liberty; eliminated torture and established religious tolerance |
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| son of Maria Theresa; traveled in disguise among his subjects to learn about their common problems; modernized Austria's government |
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