POLI 201 Chapter : Political
15 Mar 2019
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Exam 2 glossary terms, essay, and topic descriptions. An 18th century movement of critics of the existing political, economic, social and other. The enlightened invented an optimistic, if basically materialistic (and secular) view of human kind, one that allowed for humans to. "naturally" have the power to choose good or bad/evil. "equation" and compiled a lot of very useful data on their societies. The enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern western world view. By this they meant a combination of rationalism and empiricism. Rationalism involved using formal inductive and deductive logic and systematic doubt as descartes had defined them in discourse on method. Empiricism said we "learn" by the build up of sensory data on our "tabula rasa" or blank slates (minds), blank, that is, at birth. Both had significant flaws if one was seeking "truth. " When all else fails, resort to "all right-thinking men will agree . "
