Question

comment on the role of the ideas of different political thinkers during the French Revolution​

Answer 1

Answer:

(1) Among them were Voltaire , Rousseau , Montesquieu and Dederot . Their revolutionary ideas helped the people to fight for their rights .

(2) They exposed the inefficiency of the monarch and and his government. (3)Voltaire's ideas encouraged people to fight against the privileges and finance of the Church without guilt.

Answer 2

The 18th century in France saw the ideas of the political thinkers like Voltaire, Rousseau, Locke Montesquieu, and Diderot bring together revolutionary changes in the history of France. They iterated the incompetence of monarch’s rule, the feeling of nationalism and the rights to freedom with the need for democracy.

Explanation:

• These ideas of the political thinkers led to the French revolution which inspired many countries to dethrone the monarch system and free themselves.
• Some ideas are Voltaire’s ideas came in a time when people firmly believed in the principles of the church but he encouraged the common people to fight for privileges without guilt. Voltaire stated the government's goal was to defend people's freedoms. Religious freedom, press freedom and the abolition of feudal privileges were all cornerstones of Voltaire's political thinking.
• Locke iterated the inefficiency of the rights of an absolute monarch. John Locke expressed his view that by protecting life, liberty, and property, govt. is obligated to serve the people. He also believed in restricting government power
• Montesquieu professed the powers of a country cannot be safe in a single person’s hand. He said there were two forms of government: the administrative and the sovereign. He believed the administrative powers were split into the executive, the judiciary and the legislative. Montesquieu called "separation of powers" the idea of dividing government power into three branches. He thought it was most important to create separate branches of government with equal, but different powers. In this way, the government would avoid placing too much power on one individual or group of people.
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau showed the importance of democracy to give people their rights. Rousseau argued that the enslavement of modern man to his own desires was responsible for all sorts of social ills, from domination and exploitation  to low self-esteem and depression. Rousseau believed that good government must have the freedom of all its citizens as its most fundamental objective