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10 Cards in this Set
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Handbook of Christian Knight
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Desiderius Erasmus; 1503; born in Holland; urged the laity to pursue lives of serene inward piety
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Utopia
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Sir Thomas More; 1516; English; critiqued poverty, religious persecution, and war; believed toleration is granted to all who recognize the existence of God and immortality of the soul; Europeans who knew the Gospels ought to be able to be even better than those who did not
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Methodology of Doubt
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Rene Decartes; 1637; French philosopher; "cogito ergo sum" I think therefore I am; Decartes begins to doubt and wonder, still connected to God but toyed with the idea that God is less and less certain; self is established
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Principia Mathematica
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Sir Isaac Newton; 1687; explained the separation of science and religion; put humanity over environment; justified certain aspects of nature through science, not religion
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Gulliver's Travels
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Jonathon Swift; 1726; Irish; science was not a well-respected entity; not well funded by government; no academic setting, making a living as a scientist extremely rare; word of science was the relationship with religion; trying to extract sun beans out of a cucumber
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What is Enlightenment?
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Emmanuel Kant; 1784; German; believed people should 'dare to know'; called for a declaration of intellectual intelligence; started to pull away from science but still connected to God
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Frankenstein
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Mary Shelley; 1818; proved science could go terribly wrong; science going to destroy, it is not the great savior
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Hard Times
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Charles Dickens; 1854; English writer; despite all of the scientific innovations during the Industrial Revolution there were still many negative side effects; some of the most intense pollution in history contributing to bronchitis and tuberculosis; toxic water produced by industrial pollution and human waste led to epidemic of cholera
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The Wasteland
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T.S. Eliot; 1922; American poet; presented a philosophy that was close to despair; life is a living death to be endured as boredom and frustration; these feelings stemmed from the recent end of the First World War, science had caused millions of people to lose their lives and suffer greatly in the carnage that was World War I
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Dr. Strangelove
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Stanley Kubrick; 1964; American writer; inspired by the Cuban missile crisis; devastating and dark comedy with many cold war themes; story concerns an "accidental" missile crisis, repression of memory and reversal of alliances; depicts how science can go terribly wrong = "betrayed by their science"
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