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Chapter 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Enlightenment? | the broad term applied to the intellectual developments of the eighteenth century, as articulated by a relatively small number of thinkers and writers primarily in western Europe. |
| What is Scientific Revolution? | refers to the period roughly between 1500 and 1700 during which the foundations of modern science were laid down in Western Europe. |
| Who is John Locke? | He is an English Philosopher and was the founder of empirism. |
| What is deism? | Deism is a term coined in the philosophe movement and applies to two related ideas |
| What is tolerance? | The greatest human crimes, as far as the philosophes were concerned, have been perpetrated in the name of religion and the name of God. |
| who were the two major French philosophes? | Voltaire and Montesquieu. They were pioneers in championing Enlightenment ideas. |
| What is Progress? | Human history is largely a history of the improvement of humanity in three respects |
| who is Thomas Hobbes? | English political philosopher. |