Enlightenment+(Tyler+Swanson)

Tyler Swanson

Enlightenment

1) Locke
 * //Essay Concerning Human Understanding//
 * Implied that people were affected by their environment
 * Political ideas had profound efffect on Western world
 * Denied Descartes's innate ideas

2) Montesquieu //*//3 basic governments- republics, monarchy, and despotism
 * //The Spirit of the Laws//
 * Insisted on seperation of powers
 * Advocate of religious toleration

3) Voltaire //*//Crticized lack of freedom and relgion in France //*//"Crush the infamous thing"
 * //Philosophic Letters on the English//
 * //Treatise on Toleration//

4) Diderot
 * //Encyclopedia//
 * Maintained Christianity was the worst relgion
 * Changed genearl way of thinking
 * Helped to spread Enlightenment ideas