HIST 2055 Lecture : HIST NOTES
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Locke was a cautious believer: beyond our senses, we cannot be certain of anything, excepting. God, whose rational purpose was evident in the harmony and order of nature. : empirical and practical, he did not believe in the trinity though he considered himself a devout christian, enlightenment promoted the testing of propositions. The natural history of religion (1757: scottish philosophe david hume saw blind faith as irrational and absurd. Jesus; but they intellectualized these qualities rather than convert. God or jesus into an enchanted, unexplainable, all-powerful force substituting for science: rebelled against religious war, no force that could substitute for science. Where is this heading: for humanist benjamin franklin, a self-made man, the american. Enlightenment had to reject the puritan notion that one had to. Earn salvation. the boston puritanism he knew as a youth expressed distrust of the individual will.
