Question

Which philosophers of the European Enlightenment influenced the founding documents of American government through their theory of a social contract?

Responses

Michel de Montaigne and Denis Diderot
Michel de Montaigne and Denis Diderot

Thomas Hobbes and John Locke
Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

Charles de Montesquieu and Mary Wollstonecraft
Charles de Montesquieu and Mary Wollstonecraft

Cesare Beccaria and Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Answer 1

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a French Enlightenment thinker who lived and wrote after Hobbes and Locke. He focused on social contract theory, most notably in his book The Social Contract (1762).

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