THE ENLIGHTENMENT

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THE ENLIGHTENMENT
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Main ideas established by great thinkers

• Human affairs guided by rationality
• Human reason can change society
• Science as the basis for validation

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Main thinkers (partial)

• John Locke (1637-1704)
• Charles Louis Montesquieu (1689-1755)
• François Marie Voltaire (1694-1778)
• Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712)-1778)
• Denis Diderot (1713-1814)
• Adam Smith (1723-1790)
• Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

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Main debates

• Man and God
• Truth
• Good life
• Evil
• Economy
• The rest of the world