European Enlightenment: Difference between revisions
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=== 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 | ||
=== Denis Diderot === | === Denis Diderot === | ||