| A | B |
|---|
| Thomas Hobbes | People are bad. We need Absolute Monarchies |
| John Locke | People are good. They need a say in their government. Thomas Jefferson must have been a BIG fan. |
| Social Contract | People will give up freedoms for order |
| Physiocrats | Enlightened thinkers that looked to use reason to solve economic issues |
| Free Market | Let Supply and Demand run its course |
| Laissez Faire | Government attitude about staying out of business |
| Mercantilsim | Government wants to export more than it imports. It must get inolved in its economy to ensure this will happen |
| Philosophes | Enlightened thinkers that tried to think of ways to improve society |
| Natural Rights | Rights people are born with |
| Enlightened Despots | Monarchs who used their power to change their countries towards the enlightened way of thinking. |
| Salons | Meeting place for people to discuss Enlightened ideas. |
| Montesquieu | He believed in the importance of checks and balances in a government system |
| Wollstonecraft | Men and Women should be equally educated |
| Voltaire | "I may hate everything you may have to say, but I would die to defend your right to say it." Freedom of Speech |
| Adam Smith | This man supported a free market and laissez faire attitudes |
| Diderot | First Encyclopedia. People must have knowledge to be free |
| Rousseau | Believes in "Greater" good of the society, rather than the individual. He said people are naturally good, but we must stay away from natural laws and make social contracts. |
