HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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John Locke
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Thomas Hobbes
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John Wycliffe
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Detailed explanation-1: -Origins of the French Enlightenment During the reign of the wildly extravagant “Sun King” Louis XIV (reigned 1643–1715), wealthy intellectual elites began to gather regularly in Parisian salons (often hosted by high-society women) and complain about the state of their country.
Detailed explanation-2: -Using the power of the press, Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke, Isaac Newton, and Voltaire questioned accepted knowledge and spread new ideas about openness, investigation, and religious tolerance throughout Europe and the Americas.
Detailed explanation-3: -Words such as reason, natural law, hope, and progress were common words to the thinkers of the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment was especially influenced by the ideas of Isaac Newton and John Locke.