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The Renaissance was the time period where inventors where born and new ideas were created. With new discoveries came people where able to look at the world differently and formulate their own opinions. Also during this time education was reformed.
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The Renaissance was the time period where inventors where born and new ideas were created. With new discoveries came people where able to look at the world differently and formulate their own opinions. Also during this time education was reformed.
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The printing press was created eround the 1400's. It was influential because it allowed copies of the writing to be mass produced and avaliable to the public.
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Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. This is important because it challanged the church and gave people a new way to view things. This was a major event that lead to the beginning of the Age of Reason.
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During this time period Locke wrote Letters concerning toleration after the European wars. This formulated classic reasoning and a higher religion tolerance. The three main arguments he made was human beings being unable to evaluate the truth, enforcing a single religion not having a dired effect, and religious uniformity would lead to social disorder. This work impacted social and contract theory as well as having a huge impact on epistemology and political philosophy. Some of his othe -
He was a philosopher who revealed was known as a rationalist. He opposed Descartes’s dualism and was recognized as a philosophy’s most important contributors. He believed god exists but is abstract and impersonal. This had an impact on tradition, order, and radical thought.
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Isaac Newton was an all-around scientist who was able to explore several divisions of science. His principles influenced people to pursue their own paths as opposed to perfecting themselves with rational powers that belonged to them.
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Created Historical and Critical Dictionary. The entries are decoted to indiciduals and some articles display religious beliefs and philosophies. This allowed people to see the contradictions between self reason and theological tenets
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Voltaire believed that any single religion or tradition was needed to believe in god. He focused more on the universal laws that where demonstrable and one that where still waiting to be discovered in the physical world. This influenced people to see that maybe not everything had to be focused on religions and that there could be scientific explanations for some occurring events.
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Made social contract that outlines basis of legitimate politcal order. One of the most influential works of politcial philosphoy in Western tradition.
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Scottish philosopher created theory of moral sentiments that made people think about what is right and what is not.
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The encyclopedia is the principle work of philosophes' message. Ir provided people information about certain subjects they wanted to know about. Invented by the philosophes and funded by people who wanted to read it.
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Believed that individuals had the right to life, liberty, and to pursue happiness. This enspired the revolutionary war for freedom from the British. Afterwards he wrote the declaration of independence which is the symbol of liberty.
