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Enlightenment Years
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Thirty Years War
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Rene Descartes publishes his philosophical Meditations
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Thomas Hobbes Leviathan
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John Locke's Two Treatises of Government
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Baron Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws
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Voltaire's "Essay on Customs"
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The Seven Years War
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Rousseau's Social Contract
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Diderot's Encyclopedia
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Kant's "What is the Encyclopedia"
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Thomas Malthus "Essay of the Principle of Population"