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Enlightenment Flashcards

1
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Wrote the Social Contract

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

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2
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Tabula Rasa

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Locke’s Blank Slate-

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3
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Encyclopedia

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Denis Diderot

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4
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Believed that an absolute ruler was the best way to keep a society in check

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Thomas Hobbes

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5
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Checks and Balances

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Montesquieu

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6
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Believed in freedom of speech

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Voltaire

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7
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Argued for Women’s education in The Vindication of the Rights of Women

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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8
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Was against capital punishment

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Cesare Beccaria

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9
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Inductive Reasoning

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Sir Francis Bacon

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10
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Deductive Reasoning

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Rene Descartes

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11
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Physiocrat

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Economic Philosopher

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12
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Cogito Ergo Sum

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Descartes

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13
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Father of Empiricism

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Bacon

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14
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Laissez Faire

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No government intervention

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15
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Father of Capitalism

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Adam Smith

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16
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Three branches of Government

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Montesquieu

17
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Heliocentric Universe

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Copernicus

18
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Elliptical Orbits

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Johannes Kepler

19
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Laws of Gravity

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Sir Isaac Newton

20
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Deism

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God as a Watchmaker (made but doesn’t interfere

21
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Rationalism

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Baruch Spinoza

22
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Government should protect life, liberty and property and should be overthrown if it doesn’t

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John Locke

23
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Invisible hand control’s supply and demand

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Adam Smith

24
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The Greatest good for the greatest number

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Utilitarianism

25
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Man is born good, but everywhere in Chains

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Man born evil; life is poor, nasty, brutish and short

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Thomas Hobbes

27
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Wrote Leviathan

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Thomas Hobbes

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