Unit 6 Lesson 1 Word Scramble
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Term | Description |
Isaac Newton | (1642-1727); physicist, questioned traditional thought for a more scientific one. |
John Locke | (1632-1704); psychologist; wrote "An Essay COncerning Human Understanding" |
"An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" | (1690) personality results from life experiences, which in turn shapes character; humans can take charge of their own destiny |
tabula rasa | blank page |
Samuel Johnson | (1709-1784); writer, publisher, essayist |
philosophes | the eighteenth century writers and critics who forged the new attitudes favorable to change |
Voltaire | (1694-1778)Francois-Marie Arouet;poet and playwrite; exiled to England; "Letters on the English"; "Elements of the Pilosophy of Newton"; |
Madame de Chatlet | (1706-1749) mathematician, helped write "Elemnts of the Philosphy of Newton"; Voltaire's mistress |
"Letters on the English" | indirectly criticized French government by comparing it to the English liberties. |
Deism | belief in the existence of a God on the evidence of reason and nature only, with rejection of supernatural revelation |
"Christianity Not Mysterious" | (1692); John Toland; early diest publication; |
Gotthold Lessing | (1729-1781); "Nathan the Wise" |
David Hume | (1711-1776); "Inquiry into Human Nature" (1748); "Philosphical Dctionary"(1764); |
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