419-433 Flashcards

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  • enlightenment thinkers, the French variation of philosophers
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philosophes

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Father of rationalism (man’s mind and intellect is the sole criteria for truth)

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Voltaire

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father of romanticism (man’s emotions are the sole criteria for truth)(Social Contract Theory)

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Rousseau

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(Scotland) Skepticism- can’t know if there is any truth at all

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David Hume

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wrote the most important and influential book of the enlightenment; the encyclopedia

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Denis Diderot

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government must protect man’s life, liberty and property

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John Locke

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we can eliminate government if at anytime we feel they are corrupting us (immolate the noble savages)

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noble savage theory

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wanted a government with divided and separate powers

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Montesquieu

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began the modern feminist movement

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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the great unbelief

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Deism

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the age of reason and criticism

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The enlightenment

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Jewish-Dutch philosopher

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Benedict Spinoza

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free thinker who published Christianity not Mysterious which makes the case of deism

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John Toland

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father of romanticism (mans emotions are the sole criteria for truth)(Social Contract Theory)

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Rousseau

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Thomas Hobbes philosophized about the Nature of Man in the State of Nature. Hobbes believes that man in the State of Nature, in which there is no sovereign, would live like the beasts of the wild.

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Thomas Hobbes

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invades Silesia, the war of the Austrian succession

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Frederick the great

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Empress of Russia was the most renowned and the longest-ruling female leader of Russia, until her death at the age of sixty-seven

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Catherine the great