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KMC CH 16 Enlightenment

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Thomas Hobbes   English political philosopher who wrote the "Leviathan," he characterized life as "nasty, brutish, and short"  
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Jansenism   Heresy that taught that few people are granted salvific grace; the center of its activities was a convent in Port Royal, France  
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Quietism   Heresy founded by Miguel Molinos which stressed complete abandonment to God and complete passivity during prayer; its spirituality leaned towards excessive comfort  
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Irish plantations   Large areas in NE Ireland that were cleared of Catholics by James I and resettled by Scottish Protestants in an effort to "breed out" the Catholics  
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Rene Descartes   Father of modern philosophy, he said, "Cogito ergo sum;" Father of modern mathematics, he wrote "Discourse on Method"  
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Philosophes   Proponents of Enlightenment philosophy who rejected divine revelation and instead believed in human reason  
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Deism/Masonry   Spread rationalist ideas; many 18th century European and American leaders belonged to it  
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Denis Diderot   Put together the "Encyclopedie," a 17-volume compendium of knowledge at that time  
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Voltaire   One of the Encyclopedistes who sharply criticized institutions, especially the Church, saying, "Crush the thing!"  
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau   French political philosopher who espoused the principles of liberty and equality in his chief work, "On the Social Contract"  
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Jesuits in the 18th century   They were hated and repressed by the philosophes because of their great love for the Church and scholarship; they raised the only serious counterattack to Enltmt. ideas.  
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