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John Locke


By: Amalia Gradillas

John Locke was a very well educated man. He had many different hobbies, careers, and ideas that he wanted to share with everyone. His ideals were different He was a physician, scholar, medical researcher, an economist, and a philosopher that helped spark an eighteenth century movement. One of John Locke’s biggest ideas was about religious tolerance. This was a quote from one of his essays called //Tolerance,”// Central claims are that government should not use force to try to bring people to the true religion and that religious societies are voluntary organizations that have no right to use coercive power over their own members or those outside their group”. He believed that even though the Catholic Church thought that it reigned supreme that all religions should be accepted. He was truly a man ahead of his time. Because his belief in religious tolerance was one of the reasons that helped start the philosophical ideas against the Catholic Church.


 * John Locke. Oregon State University. 7 Aug. 2009 **.


 * Uzgalis, William, "John Locke", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = .**


 * Sir Isaac Newton**



By Brandon Ballesteros

Isaac Newton was one of the greatest philosophers that ever lived. He was a great physicist and mathematician that contributed a lot to the Enlightenment Era. Alfred Hall said, “Sir Isaac Newton was a mathematician and a physicist.” Newton had created a lot of different theories, but his most famous one was his theory on gravity. His theory on gravity not only described the concept, but it also things that are affected by it. Things such as the moon and its movement around the Earth were examples. On top of that he made great advancements in the field of math. He created many of the first and top equations for calculus. Although he made many advancement, he is also a “religious man” says Hall. No matter how many advancements he made, he tried to keep them a low profile so that he did not anger the church.


 * Hall, Alfred. “Isaac Newton’s Life.” __Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences__. 1998. Microsoft Corporation. 5 August 2009. **