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25 Cards in this Set
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Enlightenment |
Use your knowledge to know for yourself |
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Kant |
"Dare to know " |
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Fontenelle |
French, popularization of science |
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Skepticism |
Beginning of questioning religious truths and values |
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Bayle |
Apply textual criticism to the bible |
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James Cook |
Travels, became the best seller about his journeys in the south Pacific |
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Cultural Relativism |
Certainty of European customs began to give way to an appreciation of other civilizations |
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Locke |
Denied Descartes' belief in innate . Man is born with a "tabula rosa". (Blank mind) |
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Philosophes |
Intellectuals of the enlightenment |
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Paris |
Center of Enlightenment |
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Reason |
A scientific method of rational criticism, societies need freedom of expression and inquiry to find Enlightenment. |
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Montesquieu |
Persian Letters, Spirit of Laws, Believed in the separation of powers. |
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Voltaire |
Philosophical Letters to the English, Candide; advocated religious tolerance. |
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Deism |
Shared by most philosophes, believed in Newton's world-machine and the existence of God, but an impersonal God |
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Diderot |
Encyclopedia; connection of knowledge. Materialistic conception of life, attacked religious intolerance |
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Hume |
Treatise on Human Nature, Gartner of social science |
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Quesnay |
Physiocrat, natural economic laws |
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Laissez-Faire |
"Let people do what they choose", no interference in natural economic law. |
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Adam Smith |
Wealth of Nations, economic liberalism or the beginnings of modern capitalism. |
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D'Holbach |
System of nature, everything consisted of matter in motion |
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De Condorcet |
Progress of the human mind, nine stages of human progression |
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Rousseau |
Social Contract, the general will of the people, also promoted education of the natural man in Emile, sought a balance between heart and mind |
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May Astell |
Advocated that women needed to be better educated |
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Mary Wollstonecraft |
Founder of modern European feminism, wrote Vindication of the Rights of Women |
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Salons |
Places where wealthy patrons, usually women, hosted philosophes and people of culture to |
