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enlightment people

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adam smith
wrote "wealth of nations";creator of modern capitalism;natural order of the market place;law of supply and deman;law of competition
diderot
wrote "encyclopedia";gathering of all good works of philosophes;guves u flavor of the age
voltaire
history, religious toleration, enlightened despotism;brilliant;supported all natural rights;definately a Deist
condorcet
believed that we were entering stage 10(perfection/utopia);utopian enthusiasm;wrote "progress of the human mind"
montesquie
seperation of powers;exectutive, legislative, and judicial
physiocrats
quesnay, laissez-faire;land;moral foundation
newton
natural laws;world machine;gravity
holbach
aetheism;no emotions;materialism;wrote the "system of nature"
philosophes
to enlightment as humanist is to rennaissance;goal was to remove christianity from society
rousseau
social contract;wrote "on the origins of human inequality";wrote "emilie"
salon
living room place in paris where philosophes met; in and out crowd;run by women
bayle
created historical and critical dictionary and pulled out david; attacked bible stories; religious skeptism
locke
tabula rosa;we know what we know based on our own experiances
Fontelle
created a novel love story in which he got science into pop culture
hume
definetaly deist;wrote "treatise on human nature";believed that science of man was possible
james cook
wrote "travels" which included tahitit and showed peopl what they wanted to see; travel literature

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