HIST 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Deism, Alexis De Tocqueville, Great Fear
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Confidence in reason & skeptical attitude towards accepted. Description & theory of earth"s development, ignoring religion & Questions christianity"s attempts to impose orthodoxy at any cost. Advocates for complete tolerance of others" religions. 1781 recognized the rights of protestants & jews in his realm. Criticized status quo as well as the philosophes. Philosophes - led by diderot & voltaire. Voltaire: advocated for deism- (belief in god as creator, but he steps back and lets humanity run the world without his intervention) Criticism of religion: the hypocrisy of christianity, fanaticism, superstition. Encyclopedia - revolutionary form of passing knowledge without. Education virtue & happiness people must be enlightened and prejudice not constrained . All humans have liberty humans by birth have natural rights: govt should grand individuals the authority to educate themselves as they wish (these rights cannot be violated) Theory of consent: the governed have the right to overthrow (the right to rebellion)
