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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

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Voltaire

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Philosophic Letters on the English

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Voltaire

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Champion of 1st Amendment freedoms

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Voltaire

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Calas Affair

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Voltaire

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Treatise on Toleration

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Voltaire

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“Ecrasez l’infame”

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Voltaire

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Candide

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Voltaire

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Targets Leibniz

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Voltaire

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Encyclopedie

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Denis Diderot and Jean d’Alembert

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Treatise of Human Nature

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David Hume

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Science of man

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David Hume

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Social sciences

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David Hume

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System of Nature

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Baron Paul d’Holbach

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Advocated strict doctrine of atheism and materialism

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Baron Paul d’Holbach

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The Progress of the Human Mind

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Marquis Marie-Jean Condorcet

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“Perfectibility of society”

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Marquis Marie-Jean Condorcet

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On Crimes and Punishments

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Cesare Beccaria

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Humane treatment of prisoners

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Cesare Beccaria

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Torture and public executions are barbaric

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Cesare Beccaria

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Punishment should serve only as a deterrant

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Cesare Beccaria

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Prisoners should be rehabilitated via isolation in cells, work, and discipline

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Cesare Beccaria

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Discourse on the Inequality of Manking

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Private property is the origin of inequality

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Government is a social contract and a necessary evil

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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State of nature and “noble savage”

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The Social Contract

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Participatory/direct democracy

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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General will

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Emile

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Education should also occur in nature until the point where one can reason abstractly

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Origins of Romanticism

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Tableau Economique

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Francois Quesnay

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Laissez-faire

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Francois Quesnay

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Extractive value of land

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Francois Quesnay

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Wealth of Nations

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Adam Smith

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In a free economy, natural laws of economics can operate

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Adam Smith

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In a mercantile economy, natural laws of economics cannot operate

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Adam Smith

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Natural law of self interest

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Adam Smith

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“Invisible hand”

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Adam Smith

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Natural law of competition

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Adam Smith

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Competition results in economic progress by encouraging efficiency and innovation

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Adam Smith

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Natural law of supply and demand

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Adam Smith

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Specialization

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Adam Smith

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Labor theory of value

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Adam Smith

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Impacted Karl Marx

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Adam Smith

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A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

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Mary Astell

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Women are as intellectually capable as men

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Mary Astell

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Equal access to education

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Mary Astell

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Some Reflections upon Marriage

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Mary Astell

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Patriarchy in marriage is a form of absolutism

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Mary Astell

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The sexes are unequal in marriage

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Mary Astell

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Mother of European feminism

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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Vindication of the Rights of Women

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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Treating women unequally fails the test of reason

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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