To be fair, while taking Jefferson out is weird, you can't really understand the Enlightenment without including its twin, the Protestant Reformation, and without including what both were reacting to, Aquinas.
----- Original Message ---- From: Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Could Dunbar’s problem be that Jefferson was a Deist?
Here’s Dunbar’s replacement standard, which passed: “explain the impact of the writings of John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Voltaire, Charles de Montesquieu, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin and Sir William Blackstone.” ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk