Key Figures Of European History

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Wrote in Latin instead of vernacular, wanted to reform Catholic Church, praise of folly

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Desiderius Erasmus

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Political philosopher, the prince

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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Faith alone

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Martin Luther

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The institutes of the Christian religion, Influenced Huguenot religion

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John Calvin

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French renaissance writer, developed the essay as a literary genre, skeptical attitude

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Michel de Montaigne

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On the revolution of heavenly spheres, launched the scientific revolution by challenging geocentric theory

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Nicklaus Copernicus

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Assistant to Tycho Brahe, formulated three laws of planetary motion, planets move elliptically not circularly

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Johannes Kepler

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Conducted controlled experiments, used telescope for astronomical observation, formulated laws of motion

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Galileo Galilei

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Principia, universe is a vast machine

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Issac newton

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Formulated empirical method into general theory known as empiricism.

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Francis bacon

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Used deductive reasoning from self evident principles to reach scientific laws, mathematician

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Rene Descartes

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Wrote leviathan, humans are self centered and prone to violence, in favor of absolute monarchs

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Thomas Hobbes

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The second treatise of government, humans are rational beings, “life liberty and property”

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John Locke

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Enlightened principles of reason, progress, toleration an individualism. Opposed suppers toon and intolerance

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Voltaire

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The social contract and Emile, believed stare was based on a social contract

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

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An inquiry into the nature, opposed mercantilist policies, advocated free trade and “the invisible hand of competition”

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Adam smith

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Vindication of the rights of women, women are not naturally inferior to men

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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Reflections on the revolution in France, denounced the radicalism and violence of French Revolution

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Edmund Burke

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The subjection of women, advocated women’s rights and universal suffrage

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John Stuart mill

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Communist manifesto, beloved history of clad conflict is best understood thought dialectical process if thesis

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Karl Marx

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Origin of species, struggle for existence, survival of the fittest

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Charles Darwin

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Theriores of human personality, I’d superego and ego

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Sigmund Freud

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German physicist, theory of relativity

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Albert Einstein

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German philosopher, encourages existentialism, embraced the irrational

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Freidrich Nietzsche

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20th century French existentialist writers, questioned efficacy of reason

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Albert Camus and jean Paul Sartre