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The Enlightenment.
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Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), the English Civil War, John Locke (1632-1704), life, liberty (freedom), and property, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) argued that the government should be separated into different branches of power that compete against each other, checks and balances, Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778), Freedom of Speech, Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794), Beccaria’s desire for the banning of capital punishment and torture, secular (focusing on the here and now over religious priorities of belief in an afterlife), individualism, salons, Denis Diderot (1713-1784), the Encyclopedia, Frederick the Great (1712-1786) of Prussia, Catherine the Great (1729-1796) of Russia, Copernicus (1473-1543 CE), Galileo (1564-1642), the Geocentric Theory, the Heliocentric Theory, Aristotle (384-322 BCE) and Ptolemy (100-170 CE), and more.
