“The ends justify the means.”
Machiavelli
The ruler must imitate the lion
and the fox “ for the lion can not
protect himself from the traps and
the fox can not defend himself
from the wolves.”
Machiavelli
“human life is solitary,poor,
nasty and short” … and the only
recourse is for man to agree to
absolutely submit to the
Leviathan.
Hobbes
Men are “by nature all free and
equal and independent and
submit to government because
they find it convenient to do so.”
Locke
“Nature has placed no boundaries
on the perfecting of the human
faculties.”
Condorcet
“The riches which men need for
their livelihood do not consist of
money; they are rather the goods
produced by the land.”
Quesnay
“Life is the trade I would teach
him; when he leaves me… he will
be a man.”
Rousseau
“The aim of this work is to
assemble knowledge in order
that… our descendents by being
better informed, will at the same
time become happier and more
virtuous.”
Diderot
“When the legislative and
executive powers are united in the
same person, there can be no
liberty. Again, there is no liberty if
the judicial power be not separated
from the executive and
legislative.”
Montesquieu
“The highest expressions of…
reason is the moral law within–
the conscience implanted in Man
by God.”
Kant
“Each of us puts his person and
all his power in common under
the supreme direction of the
general will, …
Rousseau
“And… we receive each member
as an indivisible part of the
whole.”
Rousseau
“Man is born free, yet
everywhere he is in chains!”
Rousseau
“Men who are freely competing
to seek their own wealth would
enrich their society, as if they
were being guided by an invisible
hand.”
Smith
The “two foundations of
knowledge” are “environment
and reason, not heredity and
faith.”
Locke
“The laws of justice are not
unalterable but vary with
circumstances and in an
emergency might yield entirely to
stronger motives of necessity and
self-preservation.”
Hume
The idea that Man is really “tabula
rasa” and all thought comes from
experience.
Locke
“I think… therefore I am!!”
Descartes
In economic terms, government
should be laissez faire, or hands
off. “Government should act as a
silent policeman.”
Smith
“I see a watch.. I conclude that an
intelligent being arranged the
springs…
Voltaire
• This work… will change the
general way of thinking
Diderot