What were the Enlightenment thinkers called?

Answer 1

Jean-Jacques Rousseau(1712-1778) Who published The Social Contract

Denis Diderot (1713-1784) Edited The Encyclopedia, the greatest achievement of the age. It was originally called Systematic Dictionary Of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts.

Adam Smith(1723-1790) Awesome Scottish economist who was a founding father of Capitalism

Casare Beccaria(1738-1794) Who was an italian legal reformer

Immanuel Kant(1724-1804) Who was a German philosopher

Voltaire(1694-1778) Who was kicked out of France and moved to England where he realized how crappy the French political system was. He wanted it to be more like G.B.

David Hume(1711-1776) Stated that nether matter nor mind could be proved to exist with any certainty. Pretty much, he was a huge skeptic who probably was a skeptic to skepticism

Baron Montesquieu(1689-1755)Wrote a book about Parisian morals and french society. He explored how liberty could be achieved and depotism avoided.

Then there were the French Physiocrats who were French thinkers who said that land was wealth and thus argued that agricultural activity, especially improved means of farming and livestock breading should take first priority in state reforms. They created the term Laissez faire, laissez passer- "Let it be, let it go."

Answer 2

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