Enlightenment Vocab.

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  1. 4. A popular Enlightenment era belief that there is a God, but that God isn't involved in people's lives or in revealing truths to prophets.
  2. 7. This was the group of economists who believed that the wealth of a nation was derived solely from the value of its land
  3. 9. "Destroy the infamous thing!" statement of Voltaire
  4. 10. philosophers glorified the collegiality and interdependence of writers within this, what the men and women of enlightenment called the informal international community of philosophes
  5. 11. ruler who used his or her power to bring about political and social change
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  1. 1. a new innovation after the printing press that made books available to those who could not afford them
  2. 2. I think, therefore I am (Descartes)
  3. 3. French for "philosopher"; applied to all intellectuals during the Enlightenment
  4. 5. Idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs.
  5. 6. Informal social gatherings at which writers, artists, philosophes, and others exchanged ideas
  6. 8. John Locke's concept of the mind as a blank sheet ultimately bombarded by sense impressions that, aided by human reasoning, formulate ideas.