The Enlightement

The Enlightement

1. God gave human rights and gave human equality because it was god's idea in his mind.

   • Berkeley (Monistic Idealist)
   • Locke (believed in separation between god and physical life, Dualistic)

2. Everything we know is based on information passed through our senses.

   • Hume
   • Berkeley
   • Locke

3. Kings don't rule by divine right, Kings power rested on consent of the governed.

   • Rousseau
   • Locke
   • Louis XIV of France ruled by divine right and absolute power for 72 years starting in 1643.

4. We don't know the physical universe. We only know ideas that we assume the physical universe produces.

   • Locke
   • Berkeley
   • Hume

5. We can't know whether god exists or not.

   • Hume

6. The mind produces ideas.

   • Locke
   • Berkeley

7. Cause and effect is not a valid way of thinking.

   • Hume

8. Primary interest in Social inequality.

   • Rousseau

9. We can learn through cause and effect because that's the way our brain thinks.

   • Kant

10. God's existance can be proved because he put us here to doubt our own existance which proves we exist.

    • Locke

11. Reality is just a collection of ideas, everything is an illusion.

    • Berkeley

12. Mind is a blank and we learn as we live.

    • Locke

13. All knowledge comes from our senses.

14. Freedom of speech

    • Locke

15. Separation of powers in government

    • Locke

16. Consent of the governed

    • Rousseau