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
*The Spirit of the Laws *3 basic governments- republics, monarchy, and despotism
*Insisted on seperation of powers
*Advocate of religious toleration
3) Voltaire
*Philosophic Letters on the English *Crticized lack of freedom and relgion in France
*Treatise on Toleration *"Crush the infamous thing"
4) Diderot
*Encyclopedia
*Maintained Christianity was the worst relgion
*Changed genearl way of thinking
*Helped to spread Enlightenment ideas
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
*The Spirit of the Laws
*3 basic governments- republics, monarchy, and despotism
*Insisted on seperation of powers
*Advocate of religious toleration
3) Voltaire
*Philosophic Letters on the English
*Crticized lack of freedom and relgion in France
*Treatise on Toleration
*"Crush the infamous thing"
4) Diderot
*Encyclopedia
*Maintained Christianity was the worst relgion
*Changed genearl way of thinking
*Helped to spread Enlightenment ideas