Enlightenment Quiz
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- John Howard
- English (1700s) fought to improve prisons
- Bacon
- (1561-1626) attacked scholars' belief that most truth had been discovered-First major European writer to champion innovation and change
- Montesquieu
- (1689-1753) Believed in a monarchy whose power was tempered and limited by intermediate institutions
- Pascal
- French philosophy/Math inventing calculus-becomes religious-questions scientists
- locke
- (1632-1704) Humans don't need to wait for divine aid-they can take charge of their own lives
- newton
- (1642-1727) made the natural universe become a realm of law and regularity
- Laissez faire
- "Hands Off" Government refrains from intervening with it's peoples lives
- Deism
- God created world
- Descartes
- distinctions between types of knowledge; things in the world (natural laws, physical laws) vs things in our heads (concepts, logic, ideas, axioms, etc.)
- Russeu
- (1712-1778) Blamed much of the evil in society on maldistribution of property
- hobbes
- (1588-1679) viewed society through a mechanical and materialistic way
- voltaire
- (1694-1778) Praised British society-Indirectly criticized french society