There is no morality in the state of nature. You need government to order the chaos of nature
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Social ContractA voluntary agreement among individuals to secure their rights and welfare by creating a government and abiding by its rules.
Tenaments
Mary Wollstonecraft
Grew with the increased demand for leisure during the consumer revolution and helped spread enlightenment ideas
Diderot defined it as someone who knows about god, but actively rejects his existence
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Saw that the population was rising faster than the food supply, thought Europe was heading towards starvation
Contagious Diseases Act
ParacelsusRejected the humoral theory and claimed that chemical imbalances caused disease, meaning chemical remedies could be used to cure people.
Copernicus and keplers books ended up on the index of prohibited books
Popes response to galieleo
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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private drawing rooms where wealthy Parisian women would have intellectual discussions with aristocrats
The idea that human beings, just by virtue of being human, possess rights like life liberty and property
Rising birth rates, improving medical technology, vaccines, and bubonic plague went away
Johannes Kepler
Scientific methodDuring the scientific Revolution, the scientific method was invented, which emphasizes observations and experimentation
Challenged the geocentric model of the universe through mathematics and put forward the heliocentric model, where everything orbits the sun.
Frederick the great of Prussia: tried to help the people. Increased freedoms of press and speech to weaken the nobility and strengthen his power.
PhilosophesFrench thinkers
Galen
Deductive reasoning
Every body in the galaxy circled around the earth, including the sun. This was the Catholic Churches view and presumed model of the universe in midevil europe
Adam Smith, The Wealth of NationsAttacked mercantilist economics. Promoted laissez-faire, free-market economy, and supply-and-demand economics.
Charter of towns 1792Catherine the great extended civl liberties to Russian Jews
Consumer RevolutionMiddle and upper classes had more income, rise in demand for goods increased. People began wanting larger homes and more privacy and new venues for leisure
John LockeArgued that natural rights were given by god, not a government, so a government couldn’t take them away. Therefore power originates with the people
Denis DiderotCollaborated with other enlightened thinkers to edit and publish an encyclopedia that contained a rational explanation for everything.
Voltaire
Built a telescope and observed that other planets and moons, existed, and weren’t just balls of light
These new ideas from Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo are challenging established beliefs of the Catholic Church during the catholic counter reformation. The geocentric model fit nicely with scripture so the church stuck with it.
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Denis DiderotCollaborated with other enlightened thinkers to edit and publish an encyclopedia that contained a rational explanation for everything.
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Popes response to galieleo
Johannes KeplerAffirmed Copernicus’ findings and through complex math of his own, found that plants orbit in ellipses, not perfect circles
Argued that natural rights were given by god, not a government, so a government couldn’t take them away. Therefore power originates with the people
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Rejected the humoral theory and claimed that chemical imbalances caused disease, meaning chemical remedies could be used to cure people.
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Using specific observations to create general principles
Mary Wollstonecraft
Reading RevolutionThe transition in Europe from a society where literacy consisted of patriarchal and communal reading of religious texts to a society where literacy was commonplace and reading material was broad and diverse. Books also became less religious. So religious censorship increased
Population increases in the 1700s
Social Contract
DeismVoltaire argued that there was a god, but god didn’t intervene in human affairs.
GalenAncient Greek doctor who advanced the humoral theory of the body
a system in which rulers tried to govern by Enlightenment principles while maintaining their full royal powers. Rulers only acted enlightened when it benefitted them.
Deductive reasoningUsing general principles to determine specific consitions
Natural rightsThe idea that human beings, just by virtue of being human, possess rights like life liberty and property
Humoral theory of the bodyThe body is made up of 4 substances: blood, yellow bile, black bile, and flem? Imbalance of these 4 lead to disease. This is where blood letting came from
Jean-Jacques RousseauA French man who believed that Human beings are naturally good & free & can rely on their instincts. Government should exist to protect common good, and be a democracy. Similar ideas to John Locke. Idea of the social contract
William Harvey Further overturned Galen’s theory by proving how the circulatory system works
NeoclassicismIn the later 1700s, the nature and subject of art shifted from state and religious themes to themes that appealed to bourgeoisie society
Diderot defined it as someone who knows about god, but actively rejects his existence
PhilosophesFrench thinkers
UrbanizationThanks to new technologies, fewer people were required for farming, leading many to move to the cities.
Nicolaus Copernicus
This allowed police officers to arrest any woman they suspected to be a prostitute. They were then permitted to give that woman an examination to prevent the spread of STDs. This is state-sponsered sexual assault.
Attacked mercantilist economics. Promoted laissez-faire, free-market economy, and supply-and-demand economics.
Tenamentsa cheap apartment building often crammed with people created in response to the influx of people moving into cities
Galileo Galilei
Salonprivate drawing rooms where wealthy Parisian women would have intellectual discussions with aristocrats