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Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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John Locke

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Tabula rasa

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John Locke

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Reception history

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John Locke

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Empiricism (learning occurs via experience)

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John Locke

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Plurality of Worlds

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Bernarnd de Fontanelle

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Downplays religious background of scientific thinkers when popularizing science

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Bernarnd de Fontanelle

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Translation of and commentary on Principia

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Emilie du Chatelet

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Travels

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James Cook

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Discovered Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand

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James Cook

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Huguenot and skeptic

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Pierre Bayle

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Fideist

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Pierre Bayle

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Textual criticism

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Pierre Bayle

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Historical and Critical Dictionary

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Pierre Bayle

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“Bible of the 18th century”

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Pierre Bayle

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“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity”

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Immanuel Kant

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“Sapere aude”

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Immanuel Kant

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“Dare to know”

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Immanuel Kant

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Persian Letters

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Montesquieu

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The Spirit of the Laws

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Montesquieu

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Scientific attempt to examine government

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Montesquieu

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Examines republic, monarchy, despotism

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Montesquieu

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Checks and balances

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Montesquieu

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Separation of power

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Montesquieu

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Influential for American founding fathers

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Montesquieu

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Most well-known and influential of the philosophes
Voltaire
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Philosophic Letters on the English
Voltaire
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Champion of 1st Amendment freedoms
Voltaire
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Calas Affair
Voltaire
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Treatise on Toleration
Voltaire
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"Ecrasez l'infame"
Voltaire
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Candide
Voltaire
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Targets Leibniz
Voltaire
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Encyclopedie
Denis Diderot and Jean d'Alembert
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Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume
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Science of man
David Hume
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Social sciences
David Hume
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System of Nature
Baron Paul d'Holbach
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Advocated strict doctrine of atheism and materialism
Baron Paul d'Holbach
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The Progress of the Human Mind
Marquis Marie-Jean Condorcet
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"Perfectibility of society"
Marquis Marie-Jean Condorcet
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On Crimes and Punishments
Cesare Beccaria
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Humane treatment of prisoners
Cesare Beccaria
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Torture and public executions are barbaric
Cesare Beccaria
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Punishment should serve only as a deterrant
Cesare Beccaria
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Prisoners should be rehabilitated via isolation in cells, work, and discipline
Cesare Beccaria
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Discourse on the Inequality of Manking
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Private property is the origin of inequality
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Government is a social contract and a necessary evil
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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State of nature and "noble savage"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Participatory/direct democracy
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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General will
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Emile
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Education should also occur in nature until the point where one can reason abstractly
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Origins of Romanticism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Tableau Economique
Francois Quesnay
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Laissez-faire
Francois Quesnay
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Extractive value of land
Francois Quesnay
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Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
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In a free economy, natural laws of economics can operate
Adam Smith
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In a mercantile economy, natural laws of economics cannot operate
Adam Smith
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Natural law of self interest
Adam Smith
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"Invisible hand"
Adam Smith
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Natural law of competition
Adam Smith
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Competition results in economic progress by encouraging efficiency and innovation
Adam Smith
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Natural law of supply and demand
Adam Smith
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Specialization
Adam Smith
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Labor theory of value
Adam Smith
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Impacted Karl Marx
Adam Smith
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A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
Mary Astell
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Women are as intellectually capable as men
Mary Astell
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Equal access to education
Mary Astell
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Some Reflections upon Marriage
Mary Astell
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Patriarchy in marriage is a form of absolutism
Mary Astell
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The sexes are unequal in marriage
Mary Astell
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Mother of European feminism
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Vindication of the Rights of Women
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Treating women unequally fails the test of reason
Mary Wollstonecraft

AP European History (24 decks)

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