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- 2. Idea that the government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs.
- 5. I think therefore I am
- 9. The United States came into being during the Age of Enlightenment (circa 1680 to 1800), a period in which writers and thinkers rejected the superstitions of the past. Instead, they emphasized the powers of reason and unbiased inquiry, especially inquiry into the workings of the natural world.
- 12. a new innovation after the printing press that made books available to those who could not afford them
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- 1. philosophers glorified the collegiality and interdependence of writers within this, what the men and women of enlightenment called the informal international community of philosophes
- 3. Informal social gatherings at which writers, artists, philosophes, and others exchanged ideas
- 4. blank slate (John Locke)
- 6. This was the group of economists who believed that the wealth of a nation was derived solely from the value of its land
- 7. 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.
- 8. Absolute ruler who used his or her power to bring about political and social change
- 10. a person who searches for wisdom or enlightenment
- 11. "Crush the infamous thing" meaning bigotry, intolerance and superstition. He assaulted not only the Catholic Church but the whole Christian view of the world. Argued for "natural religion" and "natural morality" holding that belief in God and the difference between good and evil arose fron reason itself.