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enlightenment part 1

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rousseau
social contract-est. by general will which is emotional;wrote "on the origins of human inequality"-private property is origin of social classes;wrote "emilie"- education, women ininferior, domestic shere, natural setting
salon
living room place in paris where philosophes met; in and out crowd;run by women
locke
tabula rosa;we know what we know based on our own experiances, Essay Concerning Understanding
adam smith
wrote "wealth of nations";creator of modern capitalism;natural order of the market place-invisible hand;law of supply and demand-natural price;law of competition-competition controls industry that i demanded
newton
natural laws;world machine;gravity
diderot
wrote "encyclopedia";gathering of all good works of philosophes;guves u flavor of the age, widly published
physiocrats
quesnay, laissez-faire;land;moral foundation-self-intrest
james cook
wrote "travels" which included tahitit and showed peopl what they wanted to see; travel literature, noble savage
voltaire
history, religious toleration, opposed fanacticism, and emtions, enlightened despotism;brilliant;supported all natural rights;definately a Deist, Treatise on tolerartion, "crush the infamous thing," Philosophic letter on the English
bayle
created historical and critical dictionary and pulled out david; attacked bible stories; religious skeptism
hume
definetaly deist;wrote "treatise on human nature";believed that science of man was possible,applied reason to broad subjects
condorcet
believed that we were entering stage 10(perfection/utopia);utopian enthusiasm;wrote "progress of the human mind," optomist
holbach
aetheism;no emotions;materialism-only molecules, no thinking or soul;wrote the "system of nature"
philosophes
to enlightment as humanist is to rennaissance;goal was to remove christianity from society, thinker of enlightenment
montesquie
seperation of powers;exectutive, legislative, and judicial, Spirit of the Laws
Fontelle
created a novel love story in which he got science into pop culture, Plurality of Worlds

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