HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Quran, Direct Democracy, Persian Letters
2 Nov 2015
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The philosophes people group of thinkers who looked at thought not all agreed. Small group upper class journalist, doctors, lawyers (not house din universities) Universities run mostly by the churches so some opposition from thinkers philosophes. Kings would pick their leaders loiu iv said i am the state. In britain power was shared with king and nobles and developed parliament. Revolt against absolutism (clerical and monarchircal: scientific revolution. Newtonian synthesis newton come up with laws which explain the existence of the. Universe, law of gravity, etc. understanding the laws of the universe. Locke"s new epistemology - a theory of how knowledge works. Provided a theoretical foundation of what happened before him and provided what will happen after. When we are born tabulaca we are born with a blank slate we don"t come with knowledge or original sin (unlike christian says we are bad born with sin) Implied that knowledge and education could change society key idea and connects with.
