IAH 202 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Totalitarianism, Persian Letters, Water Frame
5 Oct 2016
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We still live in an enlightenment age ----- i. kant. Enlightenment was a cultural, social and political movement. Applied the insights of the scientific revolution to the wider world of human life such as politics, culture and art. -- use nautural laws to understand human society (scientific method) The thinkers of the enlightenment are known as philosophes. Came from noble class and from the middle classes as well( not peasants or poor people because they don"t have the luxury to know knowledge. Reason---- laws of nature to evaluate human society, not custom. Tabla rasa the blind slave ( human knowledge came from environment, not by birth) Education can change people thus we can have progress --- meaning we will be able to be better. Change becomes something linked to progress --- the idea truly against the. Theory of sin, because they believe that people has goodness.
