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an agreement by which they gave up their freedom for an oraganized society
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rights that belonged to all humans from birth
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seveteenth-centurybenglish thinker that out-lined his ideas in a work titled Levithan
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replaced mercantilism, allowing business to operate with little or no government interference
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an early influential thinker that studied the governments of Europe, from Italy to England, and advanced the idea of separation of powers
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rules discoverable by reason
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scottish economist that greatly admired the physiocrats. he argued that the free market should be allowed to regulate business activity
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seventeenth-century english thinker that had a more optimistic view about human nature
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thinkers that applied the methods of science to understand and improve society. they believed that the use of reason could lead to reforms of government, law, and society
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believed that people in their natural state are basically good. promoted social contract
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probably the most famous of the philosophers, who defended freedom of thought.
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worked for years to produce a 28-volume set of books called encyclopedia
