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- 2. is sacred and absolute, reflecting the common interests of all the people who have displeased the monarch as the holder of sovereign power, it is not necessarily the will of the majority.
- 4. Galileo's greatest achievement; rather than speculate about what might or should happen in an experiment, he conducted controlled experiments to find out what actually did happen.
- 5. the idea that despotism could be avoided when political power was divided and shared by a variety of classes and legal estates holding unequal rights and privileges.
- 6. a blank tablet, incorporated into Lockes belief that all ideas are derived from experience, and that the human mind at birth is like a blank tablet on which the environment writes the individuals understanding and beliefs.
- 7. the idea that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe; this had enormous scientific and religious implications.
- 12. gravitation every body in the universe attracts every body in the universe in a pecise mathematical relationship, whereby the force of attraction is proportional to the quantity of matter of the objects and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
- 14. belief that nothing can ever be known beyond all doubt and that humanitys best hope was open-minded toleration.
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- 1. a world-view has played a large role in shaping the modern mind. The three central concepts of the Enlightenment were the use of reason, the scientific method, and progress.
- 3. nothing was to be accepted on faith, everything was to be submitted to the rational, critical, scientific way of thinking
- 4. the adaptation, albeit varied of enlightened governing into the rule of absolute monarchs often at the insistence of philosophes.
- 7. Descartes' view of the world as consisting of two fundamental entities: matter and mind.
- 8. intellectuals in France who proclaimed that they were bringing the light of knowledge to their ignorant fellow creatures in the Age of Enlightenment.
- 9. result of reading more books on many more subjects, allowing the educated public in France and throughout Europe the approach reading in a new way.
- 10. composed of institutions such as book clubs, Masonic lodges, and journals, and celebrated open debate informed by critical reason.
- 11. elegant private drawing rooms where talented and rich Parisian women held regular social gatherings to discuss literature, science and philosophy.
- 13. theory of inductive reasoning where you should go beyond speculation and begin to compare and analyze the subject.