HIST 215 Lecture 4: Science and Enlightenment
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Voltaire: disgusted by trial of jean calas. Tortured and executed in 1762: treatise on tolerance on the occasion of the death of jean calas from the. Judgment rendered in toulouse (1763: danger of arbitrary authority and religious intolerance, crasez l"inf me, i disagree with what you say but i will defend to the death your right to say it . Overview of enlightenment: european wide phenomenon in the 18th century, varied from country to country and thinker to thinker, immanuel kant, what is enlightenment? . Dare to know think for yourselves : enlightenment thinkers shared a confidence in the power of human reason and human progress, reason should be the primary source of authority. Associated with france: between death of louis xvi and french revolution. Scientific revolution (antecedent: new ideas of europeans place in the world, emergence of heliocentric view of the universe. 1543 - de revolutionibus: new physics. Sir isaac newton, 1697, philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica.
