Exam 2: Important Figures and Works in Western Philosophy and History

In The Spirit of Laws, .............explored the natural order that he believed underlay polities as well as economies.

The Enlightenment beginning in Britain's Glorious Revolution of ............

................... introduced a system for understanding the history of philosophy and the world itself often called 'dialectic": a progression in which each successive movement emerges as a solution to the contradictions inherent in the preceding movement.

Leopold von Ranke was a .............. positivist historian and a founder of modern source-based history.

In his 'Discourse on the Method', ...............attempts to arrive at a fundamental set of principles that one can know as true without any doubt.