Birth Dates:  5 April 1588 

Death Dates: 4 December 1679

Where they Lived: Wiltshire in England

Profession: English Philosopher

What are they known for:  the idea that people were naturally cruel, greedy, and selfish

What made them important: He made the book called Leviathan that people should give up their freedom and to let the king to have all the powers to control the people

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1). Educated at Magdalen Hall in Oxford

2) .Tutor to exiled Prince of Wales

Birth Dates: August 29,1631

Death Dates: October 28,1704

Where they Lived: England

Profession: English Enlightment Thinker

What are they known for: He made Natural Rights

What made them important: Natural rights are the rights that all humans get from birth.

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1) His publications included 'Two Treatises of Government' and ' Essays concerning Human Understanding', which was his main philosophical work.

2) Educated at Oxford University he reacted against the prevailing scholasticism and instead studied medicine and science.

3) Locke was the first philosopher to define the self through a continuity of "consciousness."

Birth Dates: 18 January 1689

Death Dates: 10 February 1755
Where they Lived: Bordeaux, France
Profession: French political philosopher
What are they known for: His best known work is "Spirit of Laws"
What made them important: He advanced the separation powers og legislative, executive, and judicial power
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1). He made "Spirit of Laws" in 1748

2). He divided the government power into three branches

Birth Dates: 28 June 1712

Death Dates: 2 July 1778
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Profession: Genevois philosopher
What are they known for: Geneva
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Birth Dates: 28 June 1712

Death Dates: 2 July 1778
Where they Lived: Geneva
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Birth Dates: 19 February 1473
Death Dates: 24 May 1543
Where they Lived:  City of Thorn in Royal Prussia
Profession: Renaissance astronomer
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Birth Dates: 15 February 1564

Death Dates: 8 January 1642
Where they Lived: Pisa

Profession: Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher
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Birth Dates: 25 December 1642
Death Dates: 20 March 1726
Where they Lived: Woolsthorpe Manor in the county of Lincolnshire

Profession: English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian
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Birth Dates: 1 April 1578
Death Dates: 3 June 1657
Where they Lived: London
Profession: English physician
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