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The Age of Enlightenment: Eighteenth Century Thought

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Isaac Newton   (1642-1727); physicist, questioned traditional thought for a more scientific one.  
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John Locke   (1632-1704); psychologist; wrote "An Essay COncerning Human Understanding"  
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"An Essay Concerning Human Understanding"   (1690) personality results from life experiences, which in turn shapes character; humans can take charge of their own destiny  
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tabula rasa   blank page  
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Samuel Johnson   (1709-1784); writer, publisher, essayist  
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philosophes   the eighteenth century writers and critics who forged the new attitudes favorable to change  
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Voltaire   (1694-1778)Francois-Marie Arouet;poet and playwrite; exiled to England; "Letters on the English"; "Elements of the Pilosophy of Newton";  
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Madame de Chatlet   (1706-1749) mathematician, helped write "Elemnts of the Philosphy of Newton"; Voltaire's mistress  
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"Letters on the English"   indirectly criticized French government by comparing it to the English liberties.  
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Deism   belief in the existence of a God on the evidence of reason and nature only, with rejection of supernatural revelation  
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"Christianity Not Mysterious"   (1692); John Toland; early diest publication;  
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Gotthold Lessing   (1729-1781); "Nathan the Wise"  
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David Hume   (1711-1776); "Inquiry into Human Nature" (1748); "Philosphical Dctionary"(1764);  
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