Enlightenment Philosophes

Mary Wollstonecraft would be most closely associated with...

He stated that "my trade is to say what I think."

Voltaire would be most closely associated with...

Scottish economist who advocated for laissez-faire, free market economies.

Advocated for gender equality in the book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

This English philosophe observed that life was "nasty, brutish, and short."

His version of the Social Contract advocated for government based on the "general will."

Baron de Montesquieu would be most closely associated with...

Who would have most likely suggested that people can't be trusted to govern themselves?

Denis Diderot would be most closely associated with...

He praised Frederick The Great's leadership, calling him and "enlightened despot."

People enter into a social contract by giving up their freedom to a strong government.

John Locke would be most closely identified with...

He observed that a government's obligation is to protect the people's Natural Rights.

He's totally into free markets, and supply & demand, and stuff like that.

Which of these does not go with the other?

Risked church condemnation by assembling the Encyclopedia of Enlightenment ideas and essays.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau would be most closely associated with...

People should "grow out of immaturity" and "have courage" to become enlightened.

Suggested that the best government would include separation of powers.