HIST 1003 Chapter : 10 01
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Reason: as a tool for rational systematic investigation, organization and action. New secular, optimistic and model of human beings that could describe wrong doings w. o original sin . The crisis of knowing in summary a new way of knowing comes out of scientific method. Natural law or law of nations (universal to all human societies, reflective of human nature) Individualism (social, economic, political: pre-17th century origins. Personal piety (mystics and others: political rights: hobbes and locke. Deductive and inductive reasoning: classicism reinforces (orderliness) The problem of innate ideas (and thus of original sin . Locke"s empiricism people born with blank slates, the senses accurately report the world to the tabula. Kant"s solution to where evil comes from: diochotomous switches in the mind) Pierre bayle (1647-1706) a unique relativist (from systematic double came recognition of social construction . Implied hierarchical scheme of 17th nd 18th centur relativists. The noble savage man living per natural law , is a european construct.
