Tuesday, September 28, 2010

hw #8

think through history question- According to Thomas Hobbes, law and order "solitary, nasty, brutish, short" keep citizens under control monarchy order and obedience would be all reasons to live under monarchy

skill builder questions-1"two treatises" "the social contract" "on the spirit of laws"
                                 2 i think a "vindication of the rights of woman" and the "two treatises" because it explains in the two treatises that man should have natural rights and should be rules by a government for the people. a vindication of the rights of woman it explains that woman should be educated just like man should be as well, not secondary or substandard

Enlightenment-the Enlightenment, a philosophical movement of the 18th century, characterized by belief in the power of human reason and by innovations in political, religious, and educational doctrine

Social Contract-the voluntary agreement among individuals by which, according to any of various theories, as of Hobbes, Locke, or Rousseau, organized society is brought into being and invested with the right to secure mutual protection and welfare or to regulate the relations among its members

John Locke-A seventeenth-century English philosopher. Locke argued against the belief that human beings are born with certain ideas already in their minds. He claimed that, on the contrary, the mind is a tabula rasa (blank slate) until experience begins to “write” on it. In his political writings, Locke attacked the doctrine of the divine right of kings and argued that governments depend on the consent of the governed


Natural Rights-a political theory that individuals have basic rights given to them by nature or God that no individual or government can deny


Philosophe-any of the popular french intellectuals or social philosophers of the 18th century, as Diderot, Rousseau, or Voltaire


Voltaire-(François Marie Arouet) 1694--1778, French writer, whose outspoken belief in religious, political, and social liberty made him the embodiment of the 18th-century Enlightenment


Montesquieu- french philosophical writer


Separation of Powers-the principle or system of vesting in separate branches the executive, legislative, and judicial powers of a government


Jean Jacques -French philosopher, author, and social reformer


Mary Wollstonecraft-English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women


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 Montesquieu- No one branch of authority would have total control
 Rousseau- This means that man is naturally free but lives under control from a higher authority
 Wollstonecraft- It means that woman should have benefits as men do

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