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Thomas Hobbes Publishes the Leviathan
The Leviathan is a book that concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and it regards, being one of the earliest and most influential writings of social contract theory. The book took Hobbes roughly nine years to write. This book contains his views on State of Nature at the the time it would be about "the war of all against all" -
John Locke publishes Two Treaties on Government
The Book published by John Locke called Two Treaties on Government was written about mainly of political philosophy. The book was important because it was explaining The false principles, and foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and his followers. -
Montesquieu plublished The Spirit of the Laws
This book was important to the enlightenment because it was a treatise on political theory, it influenced a lot of France and eventually a lot of other countries and other languages. -
Rousseau Published The Social Contract, Emile. Emile Was Important to Education.
The Social Contract was written around 1762 and is about the moral effects of arts and sciences. Emile, this book was written in 1762 but a little after The Social Contract, it is about the treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man. -
Beccaria publishes On Crimes and Punishments
On Crimes and Punishments was written in 1764 and is about condemning torture and the death penalty, and was a founding work in the field of well crimes and punishments. It was important because it explained what was right and wrong to do for degrees of crime.