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UNIT 1: 18TH CENTURY: THE ENLIGHTENMENT - Coggle Diagram
UNIT 1: 18TH CENTURY: THE ENLIGHTENMENT
THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES
The scientific revolution
Nicolas Copernicus formulated heliocentric theory
The scientific method founded
a research metod based on observation and experimentation
Empiricism
is something that you can proove using senses
not acept reasoning that could not be empiricall validated
Rationalism
the truths stablished by authority and tradition should be criticised, the reason was the only valid criterion
THE ENLIGHTENMENT: THE CULTURE OF OPTIMSM
Characteristics of the Enlightenment
The scientific and intellectual advances were not accepted by everybody
there was resistance from political and religious power
Enlightenment
brought the ideas of cultural ans philosophical movements
the individual, reason and experience as ways to overcome humanity's problems
Optimistic intellectual movement
Reason
Progress
Happiness
The evolution of the enlightenment
The education and pedagogy was very important.
They wanted to limit to basic knowledge, reserving the most imortant knowledge for the intellectual elites.
The Enlightenment led to different scientific and technical innovations.
The Enlightenment
the church lose influence
some progress was made in literacy
in Prusia was stablished the world's first regulated prymary system for boys and girls
Thinkers
Montesquieu
Legislative, executive and judicial power (parliament)
Voltaire
civil rights and judicial reform (parlamentary monarchy)
Rousseau
democracy (republic)
Jonh Locke
defend individual rights
to live
liberty
property
The spread of the enlightenment ideas
The Encyclopédie
Edited by Dierot and D'Alembert
Enlightenment ideas
were spread in gatherings of the nobility and upper middle class (coffee houses, taverns and salons)
they had conersations with well-known philosophers and writers
discussed the outstanding readings of the time
Reading societies
Scientists and intellectual gathered in academies