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Thomas More

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For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

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Desiderius Erasmus

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the chief element of happiness is this; to want to be what you are

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Francis Bacon

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empiricism; knowledge is achieved through systematic observation / sensory experience

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Galileo Galilei

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the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics

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Thomas Hobbes

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without the rule of law the state of nature is solitary, short, poor, brutish

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Isaac Newton

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asserting that the universe/nature runs according to law-governed mechanical principles

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Rene Descartes

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Cogito ergo sum

8
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Antoine Arnauld

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precision of thought is essential to life

9
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Nicolas Malebranche

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3 types of matter, mind, matter & God

10
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Benedict de Spinoza

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mind and body are different ways of conceiving the same reality

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G.W. von Leibniz

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the world is made up of an infinity of monads

12
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John Locke

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Tabula Rasa

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David Hume

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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once

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Thomas Reid

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rejecting the assumption that the mind is an intermediaries between the subject & the world

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Voltaire

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freedom of expression

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Man is born free, and he is everywhere in chains

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Denis Diderot

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scepticism is the first step towards truth

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George Berkeley

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To be is to be perceived

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Immanuel Kant

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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

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Johann Christoph Schiller

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the voice of the majority is no proof of justice

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Frederick Wilhelm Schelling

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termed the word “unconsciousness”