HIST111 Lecture Notes - Denis Diderot, Immanuel Kant, Tabula Rasa
10 Apr 2013
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Attracted to reason because it was universal", unlike where religion; you don"t have to agree to any specific thing in order to agree with it, it"s a basic sense that everyone shares. Look to nature to understand humanity (instead of god) Newton says there"s laws that flow through nature, animals laws, humans are animals, so we can be understood based off natural laws. John locke: everyone has a blank slate (because what we know is based on experiences) so we can"t persecute someone for not knowing what we know (or believing something different) That we"re going up / better, we"re increasing; different from the. Christian view of god will come and judge etc. Using their understanding of natural laws to change the world for the better; You can feel the intellectual change (vs. The scientific revolution was much slower, not noticed. Was not called scientific revolution until much later, whereas the enlightenment was called that in its day)
