Chapter 20

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Aspects of philosophy that deal with universal, spiritual, and eternal questions

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Metaphysics

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Religious philosophy based on reason and natural law

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Deism

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Oval paths in which planets move around the sun

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Ellipses

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Monarch who attempted to practice political ideas of the Enlightenment

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Enlightened despot

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Universal moral law that Enlightenment thinkers believed could be understood through reason

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Natural Law

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Social gathering in which ideas of the Enlightenment were discussed

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Salon

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System of mathematics developed by Isaac Newton that calculates changing forces or quantities

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Calculus

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Important thinker in the Age of Enlightenment

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Philosophe

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Artistic movement that adopted ancient Greek and Roman ideals

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Classicism

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Artistic movement that celebrated the emotions and the individual

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Romanticism

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Theory that attempts to explain a set of facts

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Hypothesis

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Opposition to war and violence as means of conflict resolution

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Pacifism

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Practitioner of primitive science that aimed to change base metals into precious metals

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Alchemist

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Means of attaining knowledge by repeated observation and experimentation

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Scientific Method