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Enlightenment
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History
Undergraduate 3
03/13/2007

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Thomas Hobbes
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Empiricism, Leviathan
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Leviathan
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book by hobbes, outlined the sovreignty of the people
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John Locke
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establisehd social contract, wrote essays on the law of nature and and essay concering human understanding, believed in a social contract
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Capitalism
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Adam Smith, very differnt from the traditioanl form of mercantilsim
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Alexander Pope
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Esasys on man, poet of maxims and quotable lines
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Edward Gibbon
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Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, diest who discouraegd organized religion, Author
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Rousseau
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egalitarian french philosopher, supporter of french and american revolutions
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