Okay class, we are going to be doing a school project. I am going to separate you all into groups and you have to come up with enlightenment ideas and have to debate on the best way to and why!
Group 1 is: Locke, Rousseau, Voltaire, and DiderotGroup 2 is: Wollstonecraft, Adam Smith, Cesare Beccaria, and Baron de Montesquie
Dia: 2
John Locke: I’m a firm believer in natural rights, which I have defined as life, liberty, and property. The government's primary role is to protect these rights, and if it fails, people have the right to overthrow it.
Denis Diderot: Well personally, I’m best known for my work on the Encyclopédie, a monumental compilation of knowledge that aimed to secularize learning and promote intellectual freedom. I believe this is the best.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Well I believe in general will and believe in the inherent goodness of man. Society's institutions often corrupt this natural goodness.
Voltaire: No no no, freedom of speech, religion, and separation of church and state is the way to go.
Dia: 3
Adam Smith:Well, I’m the father of modern economics, I’d like to introduce the concept of the "invisible hand" of the market. My work,"The Wealth of Nations" laid the foundations for free-market capitalism, emphasizing the importance of self-interest and competition in promoting economic prosperity.
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Cesare Beccaria:: Well, my "On Crimes and Punishments" argued against torture and the death penalty, advocating for a more rational and humane justice system. I am emphasizing that the punishment should fit the crime and that the primary purpose of punishment should be deterrence.
Baron de Montesquieu: Well what about the separation of powers, dividing government into separate branches (executive, legislative, and judicial) would prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful and thus protect political liberty.
Mary Wollstonecraft: I don’t know about y’all, but women are not naturally inferior to men but appear to be only because they lack education. This isn’t cool.