People

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Erasmus

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Wrote in Latin, praise of folly, wanted to reform not destroy church

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Machievellie

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The prince, people are evil, ends justify the means

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Martin Luther

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Protestant reformer, priesthood of all believers

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John Calvin

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Institutes of Christian religion, Huguenots, established Geneva as model Christian community

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Montaigne

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Created writing style know as essay, skeptical attitude

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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On the revolution of heavenly spheres, heliocentric theory

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Johannes Kepler

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Assistant to Tycho Brahe, three laws of planetary motion, elliptical not circular orbits

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Galileo Galilee

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Scientific method by controlled experiment, condemned for advocating heliocentric model

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Issac newton

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Newtonian world machine idea, strongly influenced deism

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Francis bacon

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Inductive reasoning or empiricism

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Rene Descartes

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Deductive reasoning, truth through logic

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Thomas Hobbes

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Leviathan, saw humans self centered and prone to violence, feared anarchy more than tyranny

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John Locke

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Second treatise of government, viewed humans as rational, natural right, governed have right to rebel against ruler

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Voltaire

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French philosophe, enlightened principles of reason and tolerance, criticized organized religion

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Rousseau

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Emile, social contract between people and government, general will, rejected rationalism, stressed emotional values

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Adam smith

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Laissez faire economy, wealth of nations, opposed mercantilism

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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Women are not natural inferior to men

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Edmund Burke

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Reflections of the revolutions in France, denounced violence of French Revolution, gradual change of revolution

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John Stuart mill

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Utilitarian, on liberty, the subjection of women, universal suffrage

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Karl Marx

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Communist manifesto, scientific socialist, class conflict best understood though by process of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, dictatorship of the proletariat

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Sigmund Freud

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Human are rational, id everything is driven by subconscious desire

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Albert Einstein

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Theroy of relativity, undermined Newtonian physics, universe of uncertainty

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Nietzsche

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Existentialist, middle class morality lead to shallow existence, reject reason for the irrational

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Albert Camus and John Paul Sartre

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Question reason and science, god and reason are mythes,