The Age of Enlightenment Unit 3:4 The Age of Enlightenment
Pre-Enlightenment Thinkers
Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679
Leviathan
John Locke 1632-1704
Two Treatises of Government
The Philosophes
François-Marie Arouet Pen Name: Voltaire 1694-1778
Montesquieu Author of Spirit of the Laws (1748)
Jean-Jacque Rousseau 1712-1778
The Social Contract
Denis Diderot 1713-1784
Encyclopedia
Cesare Beccaria Author of On Crimes and Punishments (1764)
Adam Smith Author of Wealth of Nations (1776)
The Salon of Madame Geoffrin
Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1797
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Enlightened Absolutism
Frederick II, “The Great” of Prussia r. 1740-1786
Frederick the Great with Voltaire
Joseph II of Austria, “The Peasant Emperor” HRE 1765-1790
Catherine the Great of Russia r. 1762-1796