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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| John Locke | was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. |
| The Scientific Revolution | is an era associated primarily with the 16th and 17th centuries. |
| Nicolas Copernicus | was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. |
| William Harvey | was an English physician who was the first person to describe completely and in detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the body by the heart. |
| Galileo | commonly known as Galileo, was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. |
| Johannes Kepler | was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution. |
| Sir Francis Bacon | was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and pioneer of the scientific method. |
| Rene Descartes | was a French philosopher and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic. He has been dubbed the 'Father of Modern Philosophy. |
| Sir Isaac Newton | was an English physicist,mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian. |
| The Age of Enlightenment | was an elite cultural movement of intellectuals in 18th century Europe that sought to mobilize the power of reason in order to reform society and advance knowledge. |
| John Locke | was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. |
| Thomas Hobbes | was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy. |
| Philosophes | is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. |
| Progress: | the idea that the world can become increasingly better in terms of science, technology, modernization, liberty, democracy, quality of life. |
| Deism | in the philosophy of religion is the standpoint that reason and observation of the natural world, without the need for organized religion, can determine that the universe is a creation and has a creator. |
| Tolerance | is the practice of permitting a thing of which one disapproves, such as social, ethnic, sexual, or religious practices. |
| was a major Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. | Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. | Mary Wollstonecraft |
| written by the 18th-century British feministMary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. | The Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
| : is the book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way in which to set up a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society. | The Social Contract |
| made famous by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is a concept in political philosophy referring to the desire or interest of a people as a whole. | The General Will: |
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