HISTORY 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Denis Diderot, Sephardi Jews, Montesquieu
30 Jul 2018
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Characteristics: *****reason and science, against emotion and tradition, deductive=17th century= math, logic, descartes, empiricism= senses= 10th century. John locke= we learn through the senses: more inductive than deductive, 13th century= (cid:498)age of faith based on reason(cid:499, 1(cid:890)th century= (cid:498)age of reason based on faith(cid:499) Theology was the queen of the science: reason is almost like a religion. Fatih= into religious faith but rather faith in reason. God created the world like a clock maker would a clock and then just leaves it alone to do its thing. Occasionally he might need to fix the clock. God is not interested in sin, if someone is hurting, etc. Jefferson= life, liberty, pursuit of happiness: the us government is based off of locke(cid:495)s principles. If there are certain scientific laws that guard the universe (law of nature), then there are also natural law which guard our political and social well being: cosmopolitan movement, an international movement, crosses national boundaries.
