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| Adam Smith became famous by his influental book, The Wealth of Nations (1776). |
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| economist who thought free market should be allowed to reg[image] |
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| Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice. |
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philospher that looked at the nature of the world and believed that people were the political animals, also wrote the politics
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| Baron de Montesquieu was a highly influental political thinker during the age of the Enlightenment. |
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the philosopher who advocated the separation of powers and the three branches of government, studied liberty as a natural right
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| The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement that brought upon ideas to many individuals. |
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| movement in 18th century which advocated the use of reason and scientific method to human behavior [image] |
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| Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed in people having a good side and a bad side. |
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| a noble savage, believed in the social contract theory [image] |
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| John Locke was a philosopher who thought people were reasonable. |
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philosopher who believed that government exists to protect individual rights
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| Laissez Faire let people do as they chose. |
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allows business to run with little or no government interference
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| This story calls into life all the questions of language and the philosophy of style. |
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the study of knowledge
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| Plato and the long dedication is a compressed biography. |
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wrote the Republic; represents his vision of a perfect society led by philosophers and kings
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| Individuals need to enter into a form of Social Contract to have rights. |
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the unwritten agreement between individuals and society in which rights are traded for overall order
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| Socrates was the first of the three philosopers. |
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encouraged his students to examine their beliefs using question and answer approach
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| Thomas Hobbes was born in London in 1588. |
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believed that people should hand over their rights to a strong ruler in exchange for law and order
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| Voltaire used satire to srgue against his opponents. |
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french writer who defended freedom of speech and fought against intolerane, prejudice, superstition
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