Philosophy 51

Question 0

What changes does point eight present?

Answer 0

Modern man’s independence was radically affirmed

Question 1

What changes does point seven present?

Answer 1

With the theory of evolution, nature and the origin of man could be exclusively attributed to natural causes

Question 2

What happened to Christian understanding

Answer 2

It ceded in favor of an optimistic affirmation of human self-development and the eventual triumph of rationality and science over human ignorance, suffering, and social evils

Question 3

What was disavowed

Answer 3

The ancients were disavowed as scientific or philosophical authorities

Question 4

What is said about the modern scientific method?

Answer 4

It was the inheritor of the basic Platonic belief in the rational intelligibility of the world order, but left little room for the mystical tenor of Platonic metaphysics

Question 5

What were the claims of Platonic metaphysics? What became of them?

Answer 5

Eternal Ideas, transcendent reality, divine nature of the heavens, religious meaning of science - were dismissed as elaborately sophisticated products of the primitive imagination