| Term | Definition |
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Rancis Bacon |
ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING known for his empiricism and inductive reasoning |
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Rene Descartes |
scientific laws could be formed only through a logical process (deductive reasoning) |
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Thomas Hobbes |
THE LEVIATHAN: believed in absolute monarchy based on a social contract |
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David Hume |
last guy of empiricism, said there can't be absolute knowledge if it is based on the senses alone |
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John Locke |
ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING and SECOND TREATISE OF GOVERNMENT: Tabula Rasa |
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Pascal |
PENSEES: Known for his wager, said Christianity is the only religion to recognize a person's true state. Applied cortesian Dualism to Christianity |
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Rousseau |
DISCOURSWE ON THE ORGINS OF THE INEQUALITY OF TE SOCIAL CONTRACT and EMILE: education should further and not restrict a child's instincts, said women were naturally different form men (although they are actually better and men were in denial) |
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Spinoza |
ETHICS DEMONSTRATED ON THE GEOMETRIC MANNER: Pantheism. said religion must evolve with scientific knowledge |