9:45 – Here’s the amendment Dunbar changed: “explain the impact of Enlightenment ideas from John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Voltaire, Charles de Montesquieu, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Thomas Jefferson on ...

The Enlightenment’s legacy ... In his 1651 book, “Leviathan,” Thomas Hobbes had represented man as a creature motivated purely by a competitive survival instinct, and as scientific knowledge ...

At the heart of the project is a belief that this stuff matters, that the thinkers it revolves around — Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Thomas ... the Enlightenment, the world of Hobbes, John ...

Their period became known as The Enlightenment. It launched the long-running liberals-versus-conservatives conflict still driving much of today’s politics. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) wrote that ...