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History Exam
Enlightenment
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hobbes | People are inherently selfish, maximize pleasure minimize pain monarchy because needs some voice of power, enforce social contract |
| Voltaire | separation of church and state because shouldn't force religion, most crimes have been based on religion against state forcing religion everybody should be tolerant of each other’s religion Empiricist |
| Spinoza | Believed that people who commit bad actions is when it leads to their downfalls. Only place that they were free was in his mind |
| Rousseau | everyone was born free but everywhere else is in chains. All the restrictions on behavior are caused by society. Men are happiest when noble savages. In favor of democracy, wrote social contract. |
| Locke | We’re all born with a clean slate, people are brought up poorly because their environment. Universal education |
| Smith | productive labor is the value of human life competition, free market, and no government interfering for a successful execution, thought resources were unlimited |
| Social Contract | Agreeing to live in a community , implicit agreement to follow the rules, with safety |
| Noble Savage | partly wild, and partly civilized |
| Laissez Faire | hands off, no government regulation |
| Tabula Rasa | blank slate, philosophy of John Locke |
| Rights of Man | Locke = Life, Liberty, and Property Thomas jefferson= life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, Incorporated in the declarations of the rights of men, added freedom from oppression |
| Rationalism | you can experience something by its told to you, think about it |
| Empiricism | experience through feeling and touching. |