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15 Cards in this Set
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Bayle
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Wrote Leviathan advocating a strong central government
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Halley
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First to predict the return of a comet
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Bishop Usher
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Said creation was in 4004 BC
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Simon
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Wrote the critical history of the Old Testament
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Spinoza
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Claimed God is an abstract person and laid foundation for the enlightenment
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Locke
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Enlightenment thinker whose ideas are in dec of ind.
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Grotius
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International law based on natural law
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Hobbes
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Leviathan: strong central government
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Relativism
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Some aspects of experience or culture are relative to other aspects
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Skepticism
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Questioning everything
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Pantheism
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God is all encompassing and everything is a part of Him
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Tabula Rasa
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People are born without mental content and all comes from experience and perception
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Theory of natural law
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Laws whose content is set by nature itself
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State of nature
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State of humanity before governments creation
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Leviathan
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Advocated strong central government
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