The Enlightenment

Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Beccaria

Bayle, Voltaire, Diderot, Holbach, Condorcet, and Gibbon

Rousseau and Quesnay

Quesnay and Adam Smith

The Social Contract

-Popular Sovereignty and General Will

-Power from the people

The Spirit of Laws

-Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances

-Split up King's power

On Crimes and Punishment

-Royal edicts for punishment shouldn't be cruel

Critical Dictionary

-Criticized Catholic Scripture

-Uncovered that the Church was lying

Treatise On Toleration

-Attacked Religious Fanaticism

Encyclopedia

-Attacked superstition

-Advocated for religious toleration

System of Nature

-Atheism

-Christianity is evil

The Progress of the Human Mind

-Strip all obstacles (church) to reach perfection

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

-Blamed Christianity for the fall of Rome

Inequality of Mankind

-Property is a lie

-Attacked noble because of undeveloped land

-Laissez-Faire

-Supply and Demand

Wealth of Nations

-Natural Order

-Law of Competition

-Economic Liberalism