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* core ideas
* core ideas
* works
* works
=== Cesare Beccaria ===
* 1738-1794
* Italian thinker, concerned with prison reform
** wrote ''On Crimes and Punishments''
** condemned torture and the death penalty
* considered the "father of criminal justice" or law


=== Pierre Bayle ===
=== Pierre Bayle ===
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** challenged superstition
** challenged superstition
* religious toleration
* religious toleration
=== Cesare Beccaria ===
*''On Crimes and Punishments''
** condemned torture and the death penality


=== Denis Diderot ===
=== Denis Diderot ===