The Enlightenment Flashcards
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The Enlightenment was
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Secular views on the world using natural science and reason to explain life
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Enlightenment fundamental notions
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- natural science and reason could explain all aspects of life
- faith in human reason rather than faith in revelation
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Deism
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The religious arm of the Enlightenment
-God doesn’t play a role in everything, it’s up to the individual to do something
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John Locke (1632- 1704) Beliefs
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Humans in a state of nature: Humans are good but lack protection
- government has to protect natural rights of life liberty property
- Social contract
- Right to rebellion
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Tabula rasa
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the human mind was born as a blank slate and registered input from the senses passively
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Pierre Bayle (1647- 1707) Beliefs
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Complete toleration for ideas like religion worship
-a skeptic believing nothing could be known beyond all doubt
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Philosophes
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18-century French philosophers committed to reforming society
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Voltaire (1694- 1778)
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- Deist
- challenged the church and catholic theology
- called for religious toleration
- advocated “enlightened despotism”
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Frederick the Great
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Atheist
- religious toleration
- cameralism
