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Rancis Bacon ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING known for his empiricism and inductive reasoning
Rene Descartes scientific laws could be formed only through a logical process (deductive reasoning)
Thomas Hobbes THE LEVIATHAN: believed in absolute monarchy based on a social contract
David Hume last guy of empiricism, said there can't be absolute knowledge if it is based on the senses alone
John Locke ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING and SECOND TREATISE OF GOVERNMENT: Tabula Rasa
Pascal PENSEES: Known for his wager, said Christianity is the only religion to recognize a person's true state. Applied cortesian Dualism to Christianity
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)
Spinoza ETHICS DEMONSTRATED ON THE GEOMETRIC MANNER: Pantheism. said religion must evolve with scientific knowledge

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