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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the social

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contract it's a thrilling sequel to the social network where we see Mark

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Zuckerberg sorting out the legal logistics of his new business all right [Mark Zuckerberg sat on a sofa]

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take a look at the image.... All right todays question as a

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result of applying scientific inquiry to society which of the following best

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reflects the collaborative nature of gathering data during the Enlightenment

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and here are your potential answers... in case you're one of the few people out there

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who hasn't read all four of these books you can go ahead and pause the video [Man sat at a desk with four books]

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right now and come back once you've finished..Don't worry we'll be here ....and

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done good, good yes still alive is it the year 3000? Have the robots taken over yet [Robots taking over the planet]

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no well it's disappointing so which of those texts that you just read best

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reflects the collaborative nature of gathering data during the Enlightenment

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is it B Rousseau's the social contract well to put it bluntly Rousseau was a

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bit of a paranoid loner and hey there's nothing wrong with that not all of us [Rousseau hiding under blankets]

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can be or want to be life of the party and it's not exactly easy to be the

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center of attention when you're exiled by the Parliament of Paris for writing

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things that offended both the church and the monarchy double whammy that

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eliminates B..What about C - voltaire's candide well that book is more

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contemplative than collaborative in Candide Voltaire attempts to question [Candide in a newspaper]

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and explain how God can be good and allow evil to exist in the world..A

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rather interesting discussion and the perfect sort of thing to bring up if [Guys eating while discussing Voltaire's candide]

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you're looking to ruin a Thanksgiving dinner but not our answer.. Montesquieu's

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the spirit of laws was also an individual effort it used principles of

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scientific inquiry to examine the social and political foundation of states

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sciency sure, collaborative no. Our answer heck no that means that the text

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that best reflects the collaborative nature of gathering data during the

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Enlightenment is A; Diderot's encyclopédie which when you consider

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that it had over 60 thousand articles isn't so hard to believe [A page from Diderot's book]

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crowdsourced at the time it was the first major attempt to organize and classify

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knowledge gathered from experts from all over the world this effort was more or

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less you know the Wikipedia before Wikipedia yes there was a time before [Man stood beside enclyopedia books]

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Wikipedia people hard to imagine we know say yeah do they have Wikipedia in the

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year 3000 seriously is anything different [Boy stood by a road in the year 3000]

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