Enlightenment Flashcards
Philisophes (5)
- French word for philosophers
- People who sought knowledge
- Separation of church and state is a must
- Social Critics of the period, not just scientists
- Five core beliefs
Five Core Beliefs
- Reason: Truth discovered through reason
- Nature: natural laws that are good and reasonable
- Happiness: believed happiness was possible here and now
- Progress: society can improve
- Liberty: envied that Liberties that the English had won in the Glorious Revolution
Isaac Newton (7)
-last and greatest of the Scientific Revolution
-first enlightened thinker
-discovered gravitation
^motion in heaven and earth linked
-Book Principia offered proof of his hypothesis that God was the creator of this orderly universe
^God as a clockmaker
^deism
John Locke (4)
- people learn from experiences and improve
- natural rights: life, liberty, property
- government must protect people’s natural rights
- people can rebel if government fails to protect rights
Thomas Hobbes (3)
- taught that the people want monarchy to be safe from anarchy
- Hobbes wrote a book: Leviathan (means sea monster)
- Idea of a social contract: agreement between people and government
Voltaire (3)
- wrote Candied
- fought for tolerance, freedom of religion and speech
- “I do not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”
Montesquieu (4)
- believed power should check power
- said Britain’s three branches of government was the best: Judicial, Executive, Legislative
- Book: on the spirit of laws
Rousseau (5)
- enlightened thinker of individual liberty
- “man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains”
- liberty is every person’s birthright
- only legitimate government: ruled with consent of people, government ruled for the good of the community
- believed in a direct democracy
Baccaria (2)
- laws were to preserve order - not avenge crimes
- wanted to abolish capital punishment and torture
Wollstonecraft (4)
-book: a vindication of the rights of woman
^women need education just like men
^encourage to enter politics and medicine
-condem those who “either destroy the embryo in the womb or cast it off when born”
Legacy of the Enlightenment (5)
- rejected the older ideas of authority like absolutism and the divine right of kings
- belief in progress
- gave rise to secular, non-religious outlook
- individualism and independence as reason takes center stage
- the ideas laid the foundation for American and French revolution
Geo-centric vs Helio-centric
Geo= earth centered universe Helio= sun centered universe
Copernicus
scientist that reasoned that sun was center of the universe
scientific method
logical method for gathering and testing ideas
Boyle
- founder of modern chemistry
- proposed that matter was made up of small elements
Bacon
created the experimental method
Descartes
creator of analytical geometry
“i think, therefore I am”
Galen
studied bodies of pigs and other animals, never human bodies but believed they were similar
Celsius + Farenhiet
Farenhiet was first, both were used for calculating temperature
Jenner
Vaccine for smallpox
Torricelli
developed first mercury barometer for measuring atmospheric pressure and predicting weather
Kepler
concluded that certain mathematical laws govern the movement of planets and that they revolve in orbitals
Galileo
built his own telescope
Brahe
recorded planet’s movements and predicted accurate data