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11th Grade
09/20/2013

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Thomas Hobbes
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Thought everybody was evil, greedy, in a war of all against all
e.g. Lord of the Flies
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John Locke
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Thought everybody was rational everybody thought for them selves everybody has a role to play and follow
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Everybody was good; society corrupts; but humans need society. Society has ultimate authority, interests of individual and community must fit (be the same)
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Voltaire
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3 evils: boredom, vice, need; everybody should literally cultivate their garden
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Rene Descartes
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Cartesian coordinate system; French philosopher, mathematician, and writer; dualism; emphasis on rationalism and deduction
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Francis Bacon
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Baconian (scientific) methodl English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator and author; empiricism (gain knowledge through observation and experience)
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Montesquieu
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geography and history determened the nature of government. 3 types of government republics, despotisms, monarchies
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Heliocentric (sun-centered),Renaissance mathematician, astronomer
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Galileo Galiliei
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Father of Modern Science, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, major role in Scientific Revolution, improved telescope, discovery of four largest satellites of Jupiter. He supported heliocentric view of solar system.
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Isaac Newton
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Gravity, English physicist and mathematician. Deism - religion and science; God created the 'perfect' machine and let it run.
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