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Characteristics Of the Enlightenment
Who Said It
Government
People
People Cont.
100
Reason is the arbiter of all things
What is rationalism
100
"I may not agree with a work you say but will defend to the death your right to say it"
What is Voltaire
100
Wanted a balanced government
What is Montesquieu
100
Invented calculus and is famous for universal laws of gravitation
What is Isaac Newton
100
Believed he found one unshakable truth
What is Rene Descartes
200
A new concept of man, his existence on earth and the place of the earth in the universe
What is cosmology
200
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains"
What is Rousseau
200
Good government is freely formed by the people
What is Rousseau
200
Argued that the beliefs of the Church-Ptolemaic system-were wrong
What is Nicolas Copernicus
200
Never stopped fighting for freedom, tolerance, religious beliefs, and freedom of speech
What is Voltaire
300
Application of the methods of science to religion and philosophy
What is secularism
300
"Asking the correct question is half of the problem. Once the question is formulated, there remains to be found only proof"
What is Isaac Newton
300
Government with consent of people is the foundation of modern democracy
What is Locke
300
Invented Encyclopedia. Said that all things must be examined debated and investigated without exception
What is Diderot
300
Against torture and believed in no abuse of justice and the right to a speedy trial, and no cruel or unusual punishment.
What is Beccaria
400
the greatest good for the greatest number
What is utilitarianism
400
"I think, therefore, I am"
What is Rene Descartes
400
People give up their rights in order to be safe, they have no right to rebel
What is Hobbes
400
Developed the Tychonic Theory
What is Tycho Brache
400
Came up with the Scientific Meathod
What is Francis Bacon
500
No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for
What is tolerance
500
Planets move in oval paths- in an elliptical orbit of planets
What is Johannes Kepler
500
Separation of powers among 3 branches to keep an individual from gaining total control of government
What is Montesquieu
500
Showed that the planets revolve around the sun
What is Johannes Kepler
500
First scientist to try to disprove theory by conduction and observing results
What is Galileo Galilei