1, Montesquieu

Charles Louis Montesquieu (French: Charles-Louis de secondat, Baron de la Brè de et de Montesquieu,1689 65438+1October18-65438+February 0755 10). A thinker and lawyer during the French Enlightenment, the founder of western country theory and legal theory, and Voltaire and Rousseau were also called "Three Musketeers of the French Enlightenment". Received a good education from an early age. He used to be a lawyer and the Speaker of Bordeaux Parliament.

2. Voltaire

Fran? ois-Marie Arouet (French: Fran? OIS-Marie Arouet (1694165438+10/0/May 30, 778), pen name Voltaire,18th century French enlightenment thinker and writer.

3. Diderot

Denis Derot (English: Denis Diderot,1713 1 0/0-0/5 October-1784 July 31), a French enlightenment thinker, philosopher, dramatist, writer and representative of the encyclopedia school.

4. Rousseau

Jean-Jean-jean-jacques rousseau (1765438+June 28th, 02-1July 2nd, 778) is a French enlightenment thinker, philosopher, educator, writer, democratic political critic, pioneer of romantic literature school and one of the representatives of the Enlightenment. His major works include On the Origin and Basis of Human Inequality, On Social Contract, Emile, Confessions, Heloise's New Love, Plant Exchange and so on.

5. Kant

Immanuel Kant (German: Immanuel Kant, April 22, 65438+0724-February 65438+02,0804), born and died in Koenigsberg, Germany, was a Latvian-born German philosopher and writer and the founder of German classical philosophy. His theory deeply influenced modern western philosophy and opened many schools of German classical philosophy and Kant's philosophy.

Kant was the last major philosopher in the Enlightenment and a representative figure in German ideological circles. He reconciled rene descartes's rationalism with Bacon's empiricism, and is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers in the West after Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.