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- Jesus Christ. Jesus was not the founder of the religion that bears his name; he was actually a Jewish carpenter he traveled as an itinerant preacher and worked miracles.
- Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist who emigrated to the United States and remained there after Hitler rose to power in his native Germany.
- Isaac Newton. Isaac Newton is probably most famous for his discovery of gravity, which explains both why things fall to earth and why planets stay in orbit around the sun.
- Leonardo da Vinci. The ultimate “Renaissance Man,” Leonardo da Vinci was an artist, scientist, writer, botanist, musician, polymath, inventor, you name it, he could do it.
Mar 4, 2024 · The big five Enlightenment thinkers in terms of who inspired the most discussion were John Locke (natural rights and liberty), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (a fairer society), Adam Smith (founder of modern economics), Immanuel Kant (turned philosophy upside down), and Thomas Paine (called for revolution).
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Jun 27, 2016 · For those moments, it can help to fall back on the wisdom of history's greatest thinkers: Kierkegaard, Socrates, Thoreau, and the Buddha. Here's what philosophers discovered about happiness long before orange became the new black. "There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path" — Gautama Buddha, alive around 500 BC.
Jul 25, 2022 · Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Swiss Enlightenment philosopher with some radical ideas. He argued passionately for democracy, equality, liberty, and supporting the common good by any means necessary....
Nov 27, 2023 · Thomas Hobbes' main ideas include: people act out of self-interest, they consequently form a social contract (society) to protect themselves, and a strong monarchy is required to protect the people and prevent civil war. Why was Thomas Hobbes important to the Enlightenment?
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- Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher known for his work Leviathan where he presents a negative view of human nature and calls for a strong gove...
- Thomas Hobbes was important in the Enlightenment because he was one of the first thinkers to remove the Church from state affairs. His idea of a so...
Nov 9, 2005 · John Locke (1632–1704) is among the most influential political philosophers of the modern period. In the Two Treatises of Government, he defended the claim that men are by nature free and equal against claims that God had made all people naturally subject to a monarch.
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Sep 9, 2021 · Similar to Plato (born over 100 years later), Confucius believed the ideal society followed a hierarchy. When asked by Duke Jing of Qi about government, Confucius famously replied: let the ruler...
