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| when did the enlightenment take place? |
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- truth can be discovered through logical thinking
- intolerance and prejudice can be avoided through reason |
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- humankind can be perfected
- reason helps move people toward this end |
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| what is personal liberty? |
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| - freedom to travel, speech, expression, religion |
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| what is political religion? |
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- protection of rights
- no absolute monarchies |
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| what is economic liberty? |
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| - no government interference in economy |
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| - nature is good and is governed by natural laws |
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| - scientific inquiry is still important |
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- a person who lives by natures laws can be happy
- people should not have to accept misery now |
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| what is the social contract? |
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| - people give up the natural state in favor of an organized society |
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- believed a group of representatives should take the concerns of the people to the monarch, but king or queen makes final decisions
- believed people are wicked and can't be trusted, absolute monarch was necessary, no one should be chosen through divine right |
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