Social Sciences and History / Unit 4 SSH 0319 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau, Smith
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The idea
Locke: sovereignty granted by the people and revocable; toleration; the blank slate. Voltaire: justice against superstition, skepticism about the masses. Rousseau: the general will. Smith: the invisible hand against monopolies and tariffs.
In practice
Émilie du Châtelet translating Newton into French.
Where people slip
Hume's contempt for the commons shows the movement's limit. Kant praised public reason and told subjects to obey.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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