enlightenment quiz Flashcards
age of reason
18th cent. intellectual movement known as the enlightenment
human reason
solution for all life’s problems
reason
gateway to human progress
rationalism
only source of knowledge and truth
sir francis bacon
leading advocate of inductive reasoning
novum organum
book by francis bacon
bacon says
to question all knowledge
bacons method
inductive reasoning
rene descartes
french philosopher and mathematician
rene descartes method
deductive reasoning
rene descartes said
i doubt, therefore i think, therefore i am
2 types of reality
mind and matter
barach spinoza said
everything is part of one substance: god. pantheism.
john locke
no sin, men are good.
john locke writes
the two treatises of government
montesquieu
frenchman
3 powers montesquieu believed in
legislative, judicial, and executive
voltaire
leading figure of the
enlightenment
criticizing and witty
banished from france