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☆☆☆☆☆Niccolò Machiavello (1469-1527) was a figure of the Italian Renaissance. He was a capital figure in politics and in one of his books he wrote that "the end justifies the means" (which should be understood in context )though)
Unfortunately, many careless readers interpreted that any evil action can be justified if it is done for a good purpose. And the word "Machiavellian" is often used to describe a crafty, secret or tricky plan.
Sir Thomas More's 1516 work had the Latin title Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia, which translates roughly into "A Truly Golden Little Book, No Less Beneficial Than Entertaining, of the Best State of a Republic, and of the New Island Utopia".
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Johannes Kepler and Sir Isaac Newton
causality
The Age of Reason, also called the Enlightenment, occured during the seventeenth and eighteenth century (1600's and lasted until the late 1700's). This was a period in history when philosophers emphasized the use of reason as the best method of learning the truth.
George Berkeley
logic
observation :)
epistemology
restricted power entrusted to a king or queen
Scholasticism
There is no afterlife
God is the creator of all things and he does not need mans opinion .
Denis Diderot
