Lecture 16: The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Flashcards
What is Enlightenment?
An intellectual and cultural outgrowth of humanism
What does Enlightenment emphasize?
Reason, individualism, scientific reasoning
When did Enlightenment come around?
17th-18th centuries
Who was considered part of the universal human society?
White, land-owning men
What movement did the Age of Enlightenment begin with?
The scientific revolution
What is epistemology?
the study of knowledge
Who helped found the modern scientific method and what is it?
Francis Bacon, evidence leading to theories leading to testing the theories
Who popularized the concept of the blank slate?
John Locke
What is the concept of the blank slate?
we are all born as blank slates, our achievements and lives are results of outside influences and not innate things
What did the Philosophes work for?
social change
who created the encyclopedia project?
Diderot
What was Thomas Hobbes’ view on governance?
non-consensual governance, the people need a ruler no matter what they think
What was John Locke’s view on governance
had to be consensual agreement
What were JJR’s views on man
Man is born innately good and later corrupted by the world
