Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment

Text read pp. 737-742

PART I:

1. Identify 5 effects the Scientific Revolution had on society in Western Europe?
2. Why did the Scientific Revolution begin in Europe and not the near or far East?
3. Why did the Islamic madrassas reject these new ideas?
4. How did Confucianism hamper these changes in scientific thought?
5. How did Copernicus benefit from these cultures?
6. Explain skepticism
7. Why were Aristotle and Ptolemy accepted by the Catholic Church?
8. How did "On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres" challenge the Church's teachings?
9. How did Kepler and Galileo contribute to the Scientific Revolution?
10. How did Issac Newton's tie these ideas together?
11. How did Kepler describe the physical universe?
12. What impact do you think the Scientific Revolution would have on European views of faith and God?
13. What was revolutionary about the Scientific Revolution?

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PART II:

1. How did the ideas of the Scientific Revolution spread?
2. How did these ideas translate into a new movement called the Enlightenment?
3. What did the Immanuel Kant mean by "Dare to Know" - How is he similar to Socrates?
4. How did John Locke contribute to the Age of Enlightenment?
5. How is the Scientific Revolution reflected in Voltaire's writings?
6. Define deism and pantheism.
7. What is the central theme of the Renaissance?
8. Why was Jean Jacques Rousseau's writing different than the other philosophers of the Enlightenment?
9. What impact would the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment have on the 19th century?
10. Why was Darwin's ideas considered radical?
11. How did Karl Marx see human history?
12. How did Marx and Darwin differ from the ideas of the Enlightenment writers?
13. How did Freud cast doubt on the rationality of mankind?
14. How did the 19th century developments in the science challenge the faith of the Enlightenment?
15. How did the advances in science and philosophy impact on China? Japan?
16. How did the Wahabi movement influence the impact of these new ideas from the west?

Text read 746-747

Part III:

1. Explain what Strayer means by cultural borrowing? Cite examples from your reading
2. Why was this borrowing selective?
3. Why would cultural borrowing be a source of conflict?
4. What is meant by domesticating foreign ideas?

Text read pp. 752-754

Part IV: Document Based 16.2

complete 4 questions which precede Condorcet's Sketch of the Progress of the Human Mind