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What were the basics and starting points for the Scientific Revolution?
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-A change in view lasting from 15th to 18th century
-Science= starts in cosmology= understanding of universe, money coming invested b/c ship navigation, ends up going into physics also -Knowledge=what knowledge is real and how do we know it? -Sensory experience= i saw, human senses, then could make equation to prove it -Doubting |
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What was the contradiction between authority and experience?
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-Human experience= what you're experiencing right now
-Offering science |
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What was the contradiction between science and faith?
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-No middle ground
-Maybe the Earth is not the center of the earth, explaining things against church -Can't have arbitrary gov. with science |
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What was life like before the revolution?
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-God= arbitrary killings, feels like God's whim
-God and clergy offering answers, what is real? |
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Who was Newton and what did he believe?
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-Likes Bacon
1. Pattern of reason= uniformity= all part of one thing, one kind of matter, set of laws, kind of space/time -Anti-arbitrary= doesn't necessarily a conflict, God could be making the matter, quest to find the cause some things can't be explained by science , God is responsible for science |
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Why is the church threatened by the scientific rev?
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-Whole new understanding of world
-People went to religion for answers that now science is answering -Science gaining more power |
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Who was Rene Descartes?
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-Mathematician, only true knowledge came from math (connected to Bacon)
-Inductive reasoning and experimental method= following a process and using your own mind to deduct things -Conflict between authority and experience -Push coming from capitalism= money as incentive -Cogito ergo sum= "I think therefore I am", can everything except the fact that I exist, can't find truth until you have experience, need to doubt everything to find out what's real -Cartesism dualism= you have and then you have matter, the brain is material the mind controls body, mind is not physical (but still affects it) so this must be work of God |
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Who was Sir Francis Bacon?
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-British, scientific method= process, sometimes when it feels or looks like something it must be but you have to test it, new understanding of acquiring knowledge
-Useful knowledge= true knowledge -If we understand the mysteries of nature we understand truth -God= pro-God, but church is fearful, but he thinks people will still turn to God b/c when we understand the world in its fullest form it's so powerful |
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Who was William Harvey?
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-Nervous
-Afraid people will take his stuff wrong -Even scholars doubt themselves -Figured out circulation of blood, loves the truth |
