https://padlet.com/mrsbpetty/EnlightenmentPhilosophers7 Record important information about one of the following Enlightenment Philosophers: Baron de Montesquieu, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, John Locke en-us 2016-09-12 19:18:58 UTC 2016-09-22 19:14:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Simplehouse.png https://padlet.com/mrsbpetty/EnlightenmentPhilosophers7/wish/123275212 François-Marie Arouet better known as Voltaire. 
He was born November 21st, 1694 in Paris, France. 
He died May 30th, 1778 in Paris, France. 
He never married nor fathered children. 
Considered one of the greatest Enlightenment writers. 
In 1704 he was enrolled at the College Louis-le-Grand.
He received a classical education and began showing promise as a writer. 
He wrote poetry and plays, as well as historical and philosophical works. 
His most well- known poetry includes The Henrade and The maid of Orleans, which he started writing in 1730 but never fully completed. 

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  Was born August 29, 1632 & is from Wrington, United Kingdom. Died October 28, 1704 in Essex, United Kingdom. 

- He defended the claim that men are by nature free and equal against claims that God had made all people naturally subject to a monarch. 

-He was influenced by Thomas Hobbes, Plato, Aristotle. 

- Laid much of the groundwork for the enlightenment and made central contributions to the development of liberalism. 

- He was educated at the prestigious Westminster School, London, and in 1652 went on to university at Christ Church, Oxford.

-He study medicine.

-In 1683 he escaped to the Netherlands after being connected to the Rye House Plot.

]]> 2016-09-12 19:23:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mrsbpetty/EnlightenmentPhilosophers7/wish/123275252 https://padlet.com/mrsbpetty/EnlightenmentPhilosophers7/wish/123275297 Baron de Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat)

Born January 18, 1689 in Bordeaux, France. Died February 10, 1775 in Paris, France
 At age 11 he was sent to Oratorian Collége de Juilly near Paris to study literature, and the science. He went on to take up law at the University of Bordeaux and began working in Paris after graduation.
In 1714, he became councilor to the Bordeaux parliment; in 1715 he married Jeanne de Lartigue
In 1716, his uncle died leaving him land and titles as the Baron de La Bréde and de Montesquieu.
Books he wrote included: The Spirit of Laws  (banned by the Catholic Church), Persian Letters, Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline, The political theory of Montesquieu, Oeuvres complètes de Montesquieu]]> 2016-09-12 19:23:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mrsbpetty/EnlightenmentPhilosophers7/wish/123275297 https://padlet.com/mrsbpetty/EnlightenmentPhilosophers7/wish/123275377 Jean - Jacques Rousseau was known as one of the "most influential thinkers" during the 18th century. He was born on June 28, 1712 in Geneva, Switzerland. When he was older, he became a philosopher and a songwriter. His first philosophical work, A Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, discussed how science and arts had caused the corruption of virtue and morality. 

He later died at the age 66 from a horrible stroke in Ermenonville, France]]> 2016-09-12 19:23:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mrsbpetty/EnlightenmentPhilosophers7/wish/123275377 https://padlet.com/mrsbpetty/EnlightenmentPhilosophers7/wish/123593374 He created the plays Mahomet, Oedipus, Nanine, Mariamne, Rome Preserv'd, & Brutus
He was influenced bu John Locke, William Shakespeare, Issac Newton, and cicero 
 He was a writer, historian, & philosopher 
Most famous for advocating freedom of religion, expression, and separation of church & state. 
He was the youngest of 5 
He learned Greek & Latin and became proficient in English, Spanish, & Italian. 
He was exiled in 1715 to Tulle for making fun of the regent of Orleans. 
He returned to Paris in 1717 and was arrested again. 
At the time of his death, the French people had begun to consider him as a hero and a literary genius. ]]> 2016-09-13 19:00:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mrsbpetty/EnlightenmentPhilosophers7/wish/123593374