People to know (their views, theories, Primary sources..) Flashcards

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Nicolas Copernicus

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Rational
Copernicus—1543—Heliocentric Theory
Copernicus believed that the Sun is a material copy of God

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Galileo

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Rational
-Italian Scientist 
-Supported Copernicus- Heliocentric Theory
-Telescope 
-Craters on the Moon
-Sun Spots 
-Moons of Jupiter (Galilean Moons)
Galileo had a high profile for the time period and the Church challenged him for his ideas on the Heliocentric Theory and his observations on the sun and moon.
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Cardinal Bellarmine

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Instinctual
Geocentric theory
said it was a dangerous thing to render the holy scripture false

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Thomas Paine

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Rational

Advocate of Deism and free thought

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Wordsworth

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instinctual
an English Romantic poet
helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads

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Charles Darwin

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Instinctual?
Theory of evolution
Darwin observed much variation in related or similar species of plants and animals that were geographically isolated from each other.
These observations were the basis for his ideas.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Dostoyevsky is anti-deterministic
Irrational
Man can be good or evil
Is driven by desire to prove he is free.
People are not fundamentally rational but their actions are instead guided by impulses and instincts

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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Irrational
No such thing as good or bad
Allows free will
You set your own moral scenario

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Sigmund Freud

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