Week 3: Chapters 11-13 Flashcards
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Geocentric
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-Earth stands still at the center of the universe
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Heliocentric
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-sun at center of universe, earth revolves around sun
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Scientific Method
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- patterns in nature -> controlled experiments, record facts, hypothesis -> math formula to describe the natural phenomena
- Ideas of Bacon + Descartes
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Philosophes
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- thinkers & writers who supported enlightened ideas
- republic of letters
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Deism
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-God made universe then left it alone and warhead and let it run in accordance with natural laws
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Pietism
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- faith, emotion
- “the religion of the heart”
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Enlightened Despots
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- wanted absolute rulers to help the people
- combat ignorance
- allow religious toleration
- support education
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Enclosure Movement
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- landowners had to consolidate lands that used to be scattered and they had to enclose them with fences/hedges
- landowners could quickly implement new agricultural innovations
- but made the poor move to the city for work in factories
- not in France and Germany only in the Low Countries and England
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Jean-Jacques Rosseau
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NATURAL EDUCATION
- freedom and happiness
- education must be individualized
- people develops though various stages
- children should draw conclusions from experience
- individuals enter into social contracts with each other which makes a community
- rulers should serve the people if they don’t then rebel
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Voltaire
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- most influential philosophe
- critiqued the intolerance of organized Christianity
- wanted to crush religious intolerance
- thought religion fanaticism was an enemy of reason
