the Enlightenment­ Simplified Man is bad Hobbes wroteLeviathon During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. Man is good Locke Two Treatises on Government man needs govt. to protect life, liberty, and possessions. They must be instituted by men they govern man needs govt. Montesquieu Spirit of Laws different climates determine different societies and govt... Govt is determined by checks and balances.. Liberty is a guarantee against absolute despotism... man is good/ society is bad Rousseau Social Contract Liberty is the guarantee agst. artificial restraints of society. man exists Descartes Discourse on Methods I think therefore I am woman is responsible Wollstonecraft Godwin man needs enlighted govt Voltaire Emile Free Will Crush the infamous thing! Liberty was the guarantee against intolerance, ignorance and bigotry. man is good Beccaria Crime & Punishment The useless profusion of punishments, which has never made men better induces me to inquire, whether the punishment of death be really just or useful in a well governed state? What right , I ask, have men to cut the throats of their fellow-creatures? Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.