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9 Cards in this Set
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Enlightment
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Exciting time of optimism and possibility
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Thomas Hobbes
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English thinker wrote about his views on government in his 1651 book, Leviathan
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John Locke
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English philosopher believed that people were naturally happy
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The French philosopher believed that people were basically born good
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Baron de Montesquieu
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French thinker argued that the best from the government included a separation of powers
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Voltaire
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One of the most outspoken French philosopher or philosophes
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Diderot
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By the mid-1700s the great expansion of human knowledge convinced French philosophe
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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She demanded equal rights for women
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Adam Smith
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He argued that business activities should take place in a free market
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