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16 Cards in this Set
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Aristotle
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-student of Plato
-teacher of Alexander the Great -codified subjects of study -unquestioned until well into the Renaissance |
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Descartes
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-Cartesian Coordinates, Laws of Refraction, exponents
-Cartesian Dualism -"Cogito, ergo sum." Methodological Skepticism -Ontological argument |
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John Calvin
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created Calvinism
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Columbus
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-credited with having discovered the Americas in 1492
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Galileo
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-heliocentricism
-scientific method -telescope |
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Thomas Hobbes
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-Leviathan
-People=bad -Social contract -powerful government |
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Ignatius of Loyola
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-founded the society of Jesus
-set up Catholic/humanist schools -ministered spiritual needs to Catholics in Protestant land |
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John Locke
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-Two Treatises of Government
-People=good -Natural rights -limited, removable government |
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Martin Luther
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-95 Theses
-started Protestant Revolution |
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Nicolo Machiavelli
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-'The Prince'
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Magellan
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accredited with having been the captain of the first ship to sail all the way around the world though he died before the journey was completed
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Baron de Montesquieu
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-Spirit of the Laws
-misunderstood the setup of the British government -separation of power |
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Newton
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-discovered gravity
-developed calculus |
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Plato
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-student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle
-The Rupublic -most people have a very narrow perspective -philosopher-kings controlling through noble lies |
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Rousseau
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society corrupts
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Socrates
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-teacher of Plato
-"Know thyself" -"All I know is I know nothing" -"Question authority" -condemned to death by hemlock |
