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VOLTAIRE By: Blake Gray Francois Marie Arouet was a major part of the enlightenment; his views on life and his public criticisms of the government, monarchy, and the church where revolutionary. Arouet was born in November 21st 1694 in France, he grew up there and while growing up greatly disliked the government and church (Robin Chew). His intelligence, wit, and style made him the all time favorite of social circles in France. But once Arouet had written a work that used heavy sarcasm to insult the French government; he was imprisoned in the Bastille (Robin Chew). It was while imprisoned that he took on the pen name ‘Voltaire’ and wrote his most famous work //Candide.// Yet another work that offended the French government, Voltaire constantly fought against the ideas and oppression of the government and church and even when imprisoned or the three-year period he was exiled (Robin Chew); he still fought for the enlightenment and betterment of his fellow man.

Thomas Hobbes by Rhiannon Hookland

He was the founder of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is famous for his “social contract theory”, the method of justifying political principles or arrangements by appeal to the agreement that would be made among suitably situated rational, free, and equal person(Sharon A. Lloyd) The Social Contract Theory was in a political standpoint. It is also when a man was in the state of nature. Government was nonexistent, and every man was held together by his own power and mental awareness as he made it. It is a contract to establish rule. State of Nature to Thomas Hobbes is more like an anarchy. Hobbes’ was one of the most greatest thinkers in his time. He also thought that his social contract theory could not be revised. Hobbes’ book Leviathan was also saying that human act on fear and death. They live with these and they are acted upon to keep them in line or check.