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In the Middle Ages the Catholic Church became increasingly dominant.

In Enlightement 'science' became influential.

To prevent a clash Descartes designed a dual world ruled by 'natural law'.

A metaphysical world of metaphysical law researched and interpreted by 'science' with 'mind', and a physical world of 'bodies' that was ruled by metaphysical laws to believe in.

Introduction of the mind-body split

God replaced by 'ratio', but superficially nothing was changed.

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The colonists were greatly impressed by the egalitarian ideas of the Enlightenment thinkers. Many of our Founding Fathers idealized Enlightenment philosophers like john Locke and were inspired to revolution as well as patterned their new government after the ideas first shared by these writers.

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They believed an agreement must exist between the people and their leaders

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haha. this is for nerds!

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