Whose Line Is It Anyway?!
"I am a thing which thinks."
Who is Descartes?
"#NoInnateIdeas #SorryNotSorry #PeakPhilosopher"
Who is John Locke?
"The belief that reason and logic can explain the world around us."
What is Rationalism?
Descartes' famous idea about reality and the senses.
What is Systemic Doubt?
This concept of learning about our world is still used today to test theories and ideas.
What is the Scientific Method?
"Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper..."
Who is John Locke?
"Hey so you're being tricked by an evil genius! Hope that helps <3"
"The idea that humanity was given reason and is worthy of freedom and knowledge due to it."
What is Individualism?
This Latin term is the name for Locke's famous argument on the human mind.
What is Tabula Rasa?
This tool in math was founded by Descartes, and is used to plot items in data.
What is the Cartesian Plane?
"[Life would be...] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
Who is Hobbes?
"Gotta have time and money to get genius, that's life!"
Who is Turgot?
"A system where we try to prove conclusions from information given to us."
What is Logic?
Rousseau is the one who famously outlines this argument, and Thomas Hobbes redefines it.
What is the Social Contract?
This book, later to be its own genre, was made in order to "enlighten the public."
What is the Encyclopedia?
"Reason is to a philosopher what grace is to a Christian."
Who is Diderot?
"The lion does not concern themself with the selfish and brutish nature of people."
Who is Hobbes?
The study of knowledge.
What is Epistemology?
Voltaire famously depicts this place as an example of why optimism is destructive.
What is Eldorado?
This key philosopher, towards the end of the Enlightenment period, said that the period of new thought was a form of maturity for humanity.
Who is Immanuel Kant?
"Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
"I SEE PEOPLE FARMING GARDENS THEY SHOULDN'T BE! SAD! CULTIVATE OUR GARDENS, FOR IT IS OUR OWN! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!"
Who is Voltaire?
The study of reality.
What is Metaphysics?
What is skepticism?
This invented term can be used to describe the Enlightenment thinkers.
What is "System Builders?"