history 17-18

the transiotion from the mideavil worldview to a largely secure secular, rational, and materialistic perspective that began in the seventeenth century and was popularized in the eighteenth

an eighteenth century intellectual movement, led by philosophies, that stressed the application of reason and the scientific method to all aspects of life

intellectuals of the eighteenth centrey enlightenment who believed in applying a spirit of rational criticism to all things, including religion politics, and who focused on improving and enjoying this world, rather then the afterlife.

a blank mind, (our knowledge, then, is derived form our environment, not r=from heredity; from reason, not from faith)

certain inalienable rights to which all people are entitled, including the right to life, liberty and property.

a doctrine enunciated by Montesquieu in the eighteenth century that separate executive, legislative, and judicial powers server to limit and control each other