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18th-Century Thought
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The Enlightenment

• Isaac Newton
• John Locke

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Augustan Age
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English Intellectual Doldrums

• Science (Royal Society)
• Education

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Scottish Enlightenment

• Joseph Black
• Chemistry
• Adam Smith
• Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth
  of Nations
• David Hume
• Philosophical Skeptic

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Encyclopedia Britannica
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Religion

• Deism
• Latitudinarianism
• Methodism

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Deism

• God as watchmaker
• No interference
• No formal religion
• Axioms
• There is a God
• Vice punished, virtue rewarded (later)

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Latitudinarianism

• Tolerance
• Doctrines defended on human reason
• Religious enthusiasm bad
• Downplayed miracles

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Methodism

• Anglicans until 1790s
• Encouraged Enthusiasm
• Emotion before reason
• John Wesley