 Enlightenment - new ideas were brought forth on how to make government better.  Salon – social gathering of thinkers  natural laws - Rules of conduct  natural rights - belong to all humans from birth, such as life, liberty, and property  social contract - An agreement by which people gave up their freedom to a powerful government in order to prevent chaos

 Enlightened Despot  Philosophe – philosophy lover of wisdom  laissez faire – lazy government / buy things at a fair  Censorship  Physiocrat – thinkers for economic reform physical movement of the economy

 Who are our 3 enlightened despots? Catherine the Great, Joseph II, Frederick the Great  Baron de Montesquieu – divide government into branches (a mountain divides a country…)  Adam Smith – economist, importance of the free market (buy granny smith apples at the market)  Jean Jacques Rousseau – people were basically good and were corrupted by the evils of society (Rosy view of society)

 Thomas Hobbes - thought people were naturally greedy and cruel (hater)  John Locke - believed all people had natural rights and people had the right to overthrow the government (love or Lock – you’re rights are key)  Denis Diderot – Wrote a Encyclopedia – a collection of Enlightenment writings (Dictionary)  Voltaire - used wit and sarcasm to expose governmental abuses of power (volume, venom)