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History of PA
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Undergraduate 2
03/06/2008

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Individual Sovereignty
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the right to govern yourself. One of the ideas of political thought and basic human rights that came out of the work of the enlightenment thinkers
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R. DesCartes
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The man who started the enlightenment by questioning the authority of revealed truth. Decided to use only human reason to see what he could know and surmised he is a being that thinks: "cogito ergo sum"
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Nepotism
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giving church offices to family members - a complaint Luther had against the Church
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Pluralism holding multiple bishoprics
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another of Luther's complaints
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Misuse of Relics
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selling old pieces of wook or bone and passing them off as holy relics - a part of the true cross, or a chip of a bone of a saint. - another of Luther's complaints
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Sale of Dispensations
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just what it says - selling dispensations from requirements of church laws - another of Luther's complaints
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Reason vs. Revelation
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the difference between pre and post-enlightment thought. Before the enlightenment, the Bible - the revealed word of God - was the source of all knowledge. After the enlightenment, human reason was the source, as it is today.
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Regicide
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killing a king as the English did with Charles II during the English Civil War. Part of the process of making England into a Protestant country.
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