History 1401E Lecture 17: The Enlightenment, Science and Reason
1 Apr 2016
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The roots of the enlightenment: the enlightenment was an intellectual movement that changed the way europe thought and eventually lived, about ideas complex ideas, also diverse, constantly changing intellectual movement, humanism . The belief that human affairs matter, that humans can understand and shape the world around them. Humans can also change and understand the world, do not always turn to religion and rely on the deities. People before christ were not stupid they had made many leaps in knowledge and understanding human affairs. The church is not everything: the renaissance focused on the resurfacing of classical knowledge (greek, The printing revolution: the invention of the printing press mid 15th century, more and more books expansion of knowledge as more books were getting printed. Monday, september 28, 2015: multiplied the channels of communication between people, makes it easier to see the layering of human knowledge. Books from different generations, understanding how knowledge moved along: skepticism .
