https://padlet.com/jorden_moss/5diuvsxzu3rz by jorden porter moss en-us 2016-08-26 15:09:41 UTC 2016-08-26 15:32:06 UTC hello@padlet.com jorden_moss https://padlet.com/jorden_moss/5diuvsxzu3rz/wish/120049779 2016-08-26 15:12:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jorden_moss/5diuvsxzu3rz/wish/120049779 jorden_moss https://padlet.com/jorden_moss/5diuvsxzu3rz/wish/120049850  Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French lawyer, man of letters, and political

philosopher who lived during the Age of Enlightenment.

]]> 2016-08-26 15:13:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jorden_moss/5diuvsxzu3rz/wish/120049850 jorden_moss https://padlet.com/jorden_moss/5diuvsxzu3rz/wish/120051289 The Social Contract helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in Europe, especially in France. The Social Contract argued against the idea that monarchs were divinely empowered to legislate. Rousseau asserts that only the people, who are sovereign, have that all-powerful right.]]> 2016-08-26 15:18:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jorden_moss/5diuvsxzu3rz/wish/120051289 jorden_moss https://padlet.com/jorden_moss/5diuvsxzu3rz/wish/120052086 The Enlightenment is the period in the history of western thought and culture, stretching roughly from the mid-decades of the seventeenth century through the eighteenth century, characterized by dramatic revolutions in science, philosophy, society and politics; these revolutions swept away the medieval world-view]]> 2016-08-26 15:20:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jorden_moss/5diuvsxzu3rz/wish/120052086 jorden_moss https://padlet.com/jorden_moss/5diuvsxzu3rz/wish/120052880 jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th centuryRousseau's novel Emile, or On Education is a treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship. His sentimental novelJulie, or the New Heloise was of importance to the development of pre-romanticism[2] and romanticism in fiction.[3] Rousseau's autobiographical writings — his Confessions, which initiated the modern autobiography. ]]> 2016-08-26 15:23:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jorden_moss/5diuvsxzu3rz/wish/120052880 jorden_moss https://padlet.com/jorden_moss/5diuvsxzu3rz/wish/120054365 François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church. ]]> 2016-08-26 15:27:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jorden_moss/5diuvsxzu3rz/wish/120054365