Question

Name the philosophers and their books who played an important role in french revolution

Answer 1

1.Two treaties of government by John Locke
2.The spirit of laws by Montesquieu
3.Social contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau.

Answer 2

ANSWER:

Voltaire (Candide), Montesquieu (The Spirit of the Laws/ The Persian Letters,), Rousseau (Social Contract) and Jean d’Alembert and Diderot (Encyclopedia).

EXPLANATION:

    Voltaire, was an activist and prolific writer and was forceful in his disparagement of the Church. His famed work was Candide. Another great writer was Jean Jacques Rousseau. His political theory set the minds of several afire with new resolves and ideas. His resolves/ideas played a vital part in organising and getting ready the French people for the great revolution. He wrote the book Social Contract, where he contended that laws are mandatory only when they are backed by the general consent of the people.

   Montesquieu who wrote The Spirit of the Laws and The Persian Letters defended liberty. He presented the separation of powers theory. An Encyclopedia also was published in Paris and had articles by Jean d’Alembert and The Persian Letters. These thinkers and philosophers opposed social and political privileges and religious intolerance and had succeeded in influencing ordinary people to think and act.