What did the philosophes believe about?
Happiness?

The philosophes' idea contradicted that notion; they claimed that people were meant to find happiness in the hereafter and wanted people to seek happiness and joy on earth. Nature: The philosophes believed that anything natural was good, true, and reasonable.

Explanation:

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

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