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]]> 2018-08-23 17:08:38 UTC https://padlet.com/a01284749/19ruf4ukd1tu/wish/274935363 Diderot a01284839 https://padlet.com/a01284749/19ruf4ukd1tu/wish/274936131 -He was born on October 5, 1713 in France and died on July 31, 1784 in Paris.
-He was french man of letters and philosopher who, from 1745 to 1772, served as chief editor of the Encyclopédie, one of the principal works of the Age of Enlightenment. 
-He compiled an encyclopedia covering all disciplines. Diderot's Encyclopedia came out in 28 volumes from 1751 to 1772
-He also wrote An Essay on Blindness, which includes a proposal to teach the blind to read through the sense of touch.


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]]> 2018-08-23 17:10:43 UTC https://padlet.com/a01284749/19ruf4ukd1tu/wish/274936131 Voltaire a01284747 https://padlet.com/a01284749/19ruf4ukd1tu/wish/274936745 François-Marie Arouet was an Enlightenment writer who used the pseudonym Voltaire who was born in France and lived from  1694 to 1778. He wrote plays and poems, but he is best known for his work in philosophy. He was a strong believer in natural law, a theory that nature determines rules by which human beings live. He was also a deist, deists believed that a god crated the universe and set it in motion to operate under definable natural laws. Voltaire argued against organized religion, believing that people could build happiness with a solid grasp of science and art, but he also championed tolerance in religion and politics. He was a very controversial figure and he was arrested and exiled many times.

Voltaire. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/v/voltaire.htm 

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He was a French judge, baron and philosopher. 
 
 His most renown work is "The Spirit of the Laws" in which he stated the federalist system, that consist in the judicial power, legislative power and the ejective power.
 
 

The legislative (parliament) power enacts the laws of the state and appropriating the money necessary to operate the government. 

The exectuive (king/president) implements and administers the public policy enacted and funded by the legislative branch. 
 
The judicial(judges) power interprets the constitution and laws and applying their interpretations to controversies brought before it. 
http://www.ncsl.org/research/about-state-legislatures/separation-of-powers-an-overview.aspx
]]> 2018-08-23 17:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/a01284749/19ruf4ukd1tu/wish/274937352 John Locke a01284749 https://padlet.com/a01284749/19ruf4ukd1tu/wish/274937528 Born on August 29, 1632 in England. Locke was an English philosopher and an inspiration to the European Enlightenment, French Revolution, and the USA Constitution. He believed in empiricism and political liberalism. Empiricism is the belief that all our knowledge is only gained through experience or using our five senses, not inherited. Then from political liberalism, Locke supported being ruled by a political party and relied on its "protection". His most known work was “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” published in 1689 based on empiricism, after he talks about how we obtain ethical, scientific, religious and numerical knowledge, to name a few.

Rogers, G. A. (2017, November 22). John Locke. Retrieved August 24, 2018, from https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Locke

]]> 2018-08-23 17:14:08 UTC https://padlet.com/a01284749/19ruf4ukd1tu/wish/274937528 Thomas Hobbes https://padlet.com/a01284749/19ruf4ukd1tu/wish/275240232 He was born on April 5, 1588 and died in 1679. (Westport, England)
- He wrote The Elements of Law (1640); De Cive(1642) and his most famous work, Leviathan (1651).(philosophical works)
-He believed that absolute monarchy was the right form of government to humans. He thought that this type of government would maintain the common peace.
He believed that,"humans would be in a state of constant warfare with one another" if they didn't have a government.
-Hobbes' view was influenced by the English Civil War, which happened in 1942-1951.
-He had a negative view on human nature. He said that human life was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
-He influenced other philosophers to research such as Locke.

Achievements. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://thomashobbeswhap.weebly.com/achievements.html 
 ]]> 2018-08-24 18:47:09 UTC https://padlet.com/a01284749/19ruf4ukd1tu/wish/275240232 Mary Wollstonecraft https://padlet.com/a01284749/19ruf4ukd1tu/wish/275387432 -Mary Wollstonecraft was a feminist writer that was born on April 27, 1759, in Spitalfields, London.            -Wollstonecraft wrote a conservative critique of the French Revolution in An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution. She also wrote a deeply personal travel narrative, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, which became her most popular book in the 1790s.
-  In 1797, her second daughter Mary was born. Ten days later, due to complications of childbirth, she faced death.

https://www.biography.com/people/mary-wollstonecraft-9535967

]]> 2018-08-26 18:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/a01284749/19ruf4ukd1tu/wish/275387432 Jean-Jacques Rousseau https://padlet.com/a01284749/19ruf4ukd1tu/wish/275387552 He was born in Geneva in 1714. His mother died a few days after his birth, and he was raised by his father, a clockmaker, who cared for learning and had Rousseau read classical Greek and Roman literature. He left Geneva at age of 16 in 1728 fleeing to Annecy. Through the years, Rousseau started earning money by being music teacher, as a lackey, etc. Rousseau moved to Paris in 1742 to pursue a career as a musician and composer. In Paris, he soon befriended Diderot, who would go on to fame as an editor of the Encyclopédie. Rousseau’s rise to fame came with the appearance of his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, named the winning entry in an essay competition by the Academy of Dijon in 1750. During his final ten years of life, Rousseau completed a number of other works. He composed the Considerations on the Government of Poland and Dialogues: Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques in 1772, although both were published only posthumously. He composed his final work, The Reveries of a Solitary Walker, in 1777.

https://thegreatthinkers.org/rousseau/biography/]]> 2018-08-26 18:52:33 UTC https://padlet.com/a01284749/19ruf4ukd1tu/wish/275387552 Adam Smith was an economist philosopher that was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. His date of birth is unknown since it was never recorded, but he was baptized on June 5, 1723. In his early years he attended to the Burgh School where he acquired some knowledge about mathematics, history and writing. It is also important to mention that he also learned Latin. At age 14 he entered to the University of Glasgow and later, in 1790, he entered Oxford. Years later, Adam leaves Oxford and sets himself into a new journey at University of Edinburgh in where he became a professor. While working in this university, Smith met David Hume who became a close friend and they would often share personal thoughts about philosophy and sometimes economics. In 1759, Smith published The Theory of Moral Sentiments, with this, smith gained some recognition and even got the proposal of working as tutor of Duke Henry Scott. As tutor, Smith got the opportunity to travel though Europe. Later on, in 1776, Smith published a book which he entitled as The Wealth of Nations, this book was one of his major achievements. In this book, Smith explained economic concepts that are still being used up to date. This book is what helped him gain the title of the “Father of economics”. Through most part of his life, Smith influenced economics more than any other area. Some of his most important ideas are that he government should not interfere with economic matters, unregulated economic would maximize profits, boost equality and increase innovation, and he also discussed about free markets. Adam Smith is and will keep on being thee Father of Economics. Smith unfortunately died the 17th of July 1790, but his legacy and knowledge will never die.Biography.com Editors. (March 7, 2018). Adam Smith Biography. 26 Ago, 2018, de A&E Television Networks Sitio web: https://www.biography.com/people/adam-smith-9486480Lawrence W. Reed. (Friday, January 08, 2016). Adam Smith: Ideas Change the World. 26, Ago 2018, de free.org articles Sitio web: https://fee.org/articles/the-wealth-of-everyone/Robert L. Heilbroner. (2018). Adam Smith. 26, Ago 2018, de encyclopedia britannica Sitio web: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith https://padlet.com/a01284749/19ruf4ukd1tu/wish/275393868 2018-08-26 20:39:55 UTC https://padlet.com/a01284749/19ruf4ukd1tu/wish/275393868