SOAN 2111 Lecture Notes - Burning Witch, Neoclassicism, Scientific Method
19 Nov 2013
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European 18th century was a time of colonial expansion and development. Reforms in education, medicine movements to abolish slavery. The neoclassical and romantic movements in art. There was still intellectual repression: censorship, book burning. Legal disabilities of women; exclusion from education. The century ended with the french revolution. Because the physical world was dominated by natural laws it was likely that the. The age of reason" social world was too. Rousseau, hume, etc. sought to use reason and scientific method in their enquiries that took experience in their measurement of knowledge. Sentimentality and idealism, the idea of perfectibility and humanity- the idea that we could be perfected. This period, neoclassism and eventually romanticism were reactions to these kinds of impulses in society. There were no more greater advantages than the 17th century, the author of our textbook is surprised this could be seen as the enlightenment, there were still book burnings and censorship.
