Philosophy was an important role of changing the world
Montesquieu
•Divided England´s government in 3 powers:
◦legislative, executive and judicial
•Separation of powers, that limit and control each other.
•Natural laws governing people.
Voltaire
•Believed in religious toleration
•Deism, a religious philosophy based on reason and natural law.
Diderot
•Encyclopedia
•Worked on the reform of society
Adam Smith
•Father of economy
•Laissez-faire
•Wealth of nations
Social Conflict
•from Rousseau
•an entire society agrees to be govern by its general will
•emotion and reason are important
Women’s right
•Mary Wollstonecraft wrote
“ A vindication of the rights”
Growth of reading
•More books were published