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| How did the enlightenment start? |
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| Religious reformation/ Renaissance of classical humanistic learning. |
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| What did Enlightenment Philosophers Call For? |
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| Religious toleration and freedom of thought |
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| What is Rousseau's social contract? |
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| A bond willingly built up from below by individuals need of mutual support. |
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| Philosophers wanted to record what? |
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| The entirety of human knowledge and experience. |
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| What is Deism? (Watchmaker Theory) |
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| The idea that God made the world and then left the world to its own devices, as an explanation for why evil exists in the world. |
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| Immanuel Kant believed in the importance of what? |
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| Inability to make use of one's own understanding without direction from another. |
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| Immanuel Kant described Enlightenment as what? |
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| Emerging from self-incurred tutelage |
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| Immanuel Kant wrote an answer to what question? |
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| Immanuel Kant's largest focus is on what? |
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| Independent Critical Thinking and Freedom to share ideas |
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| Within Kant's answer to what is enlightenment, scholars need what freedom and rules? |
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| Scholars need freedom to express their ideas but must still follow civil rules. |
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| We do not live in an enlightened age, but we do live in in a what? |
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| Will enlightenment occur even if it is postponed? |
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| What are Kant's Principles? |
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| People should be free to reason, to publish their thoughts, follow civil rules, and treat others in a way that lets them keep their dignity. |
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| What does L'Age des Lumieres mean? |
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| Meeting of the Philosophes |
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| The Philosophes believed that absolute authority should be replaced by what? |
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| The Philosophes questioned what? |
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| Religious, political, moral, and intellectual received authority. |
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