Making Way for New Ideas

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Making Way for New Ideas

• Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment

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Scientific Revolution
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Medieval Thought

• Based on the work of Aristotle and Galen
• Faculties of divinity and law
• Bible and Roman law
• Concern with reading ancient texts, no
  experimentation
• Math could not explain the natural
• Experimental studies occurred outside of the
  universities

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Church Involvement

• Church embraced Aristotles natural philosophy
  supportive of Christian doctrines
• Came to support theology
• Church was suspicious of natural magic
• The experimental study of nature
• Church had final say in accuracy

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Renaissance

• Experimentation
• Math does equal nature
• Practical use of knowledge
• Development of scientific institution
• Skepticism, Individualism, Secularism

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Why is this Important?

• Scientific revolution made Europe technologically
  advanced
• Technology led to power
• Power created a tremendous wealth and focus on
  capitalism
• Puts religion in question

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• Enlightenment

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Old Ideology

• Church Power
• Absolute monarchs
• Only those with power (money) knew how to run a
  government
• Self government not a possibility

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Scientific Revolution

• Ideas spread throughout Europe
• Reason to explain nature
• Educated wanted to apply reason to all aspects of
  society

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Enlightenment and Religion

• Religion still important
• Deism-believe in God, but dont accept the
  Christian loopholes
• Human aspirations should be focused on this life
  (secularism), not the one after

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Enlightenment and Government

• People could progress and education themselves
• Human potential
• Current governments were unreasonable
• New forms of government thinking emerge

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Why is this Important?

• Challenge divine right of kings
• Union of state and church
• Equal social classes
• Leads to revolution-Americas and France
• Progress, Secularism, and Individualism