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Thomas Hobbes
“Hobbes argued that to escape such a bleak life, peo- ple gave up their rights to a strong ruler.” (Black and Beck 551) He wanted to try to escape the bad people and people are just giving up their rights to a strong ruler and Thomas doesn’t want to do that so he’s just trying to escape all of them. -
John Locke
“He believed that people could learn from experience and improve themselves.” (Black and Beck 551) He wanted people to learn from experiences and to improve themselves worthy of life. -
Newton
Newton himself was a deeply religious man, and he sought to reveal God’s majesty through his work. (Black and Beck 556) Newton was a religious man and bought Gods majesty through his work. -
Galileo
Pioneers such as Galileo and Newton had discovered the key for unlocking the mysteries of nature in the 1500s and 1600s. The pioneers discovered the key for unlocking the mysteries of the nature in the future. -
Voltaire
Voltaire often used satire against his opponents. “He made fre- quent targets of the clergy, the aristocracy, and the government.” (Black and Beck 552) He wanted to go against his opponents and to make targets for the clergy, aristocracy and for the government. -
Montesquieu
Montesquieu oversimplified the British system (it did not actually
separate powers this way). (Black and Beck 553)
They didn’t want to separate their powers during the British system. -
Jean Jacques Rousseau
“A third great philosophe, Jean Jacques Rousseau (roo•SOH), was passionately committed to individual freedom.” (Black and Beck 553) She was really committed to having individual freedom. -
Cesare Bonesana
He believed that laws existed to preserve social order, not to avenge crimes. He believed that people preserve in order to social and for the avenge crime.
