419-433 Flashcards
- enlightenment thinkers, the French variation of philosophers
philosophes
Father of rationalism (man’s mind and intellect is the sole criteria for truth)
Voltaire
father of romanticism (man’s emotions are the sole criteria for truth)(Social Contract Theory)
Rousseau
(Scotland) Skepticism- can’t know if there is any truth at all
David Hume
wrote the most important and influential book of the enlightenment; the encyclopedia
Denis Diderot
government must protect man’s life, liberty and property
John Locke
we can eliminate government if at anytime we feel they are corrupting us (immolate the noble savages)
noble savage theory
wanted a government with divided and separate powers
Montesquieu
began the modern feminist movement
Mary Wollstonecraft
the great unbelief
Deism
the age of reason and criticism
The enlightenment
Jewish-Dutch philosopher
Benedict Spinoza
free thinker who published Christianity not Mysterious which makes the case of deism
John Toland
father of romanticism (mans emotions are the sole criteria for truth)(Social Contract Theory)
Rousseau
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.
Thomas Hobbes