HIST 1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Carl Linnaeus, Secularism, Scottish Enlightenment
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Crisises among many of the world"s polities: e. g. mughals, chinese regime change to the qing. Europe, however, on the rise: new era of dynamism. Will provide intellectual and idealogical justi cation for many events that will occur over the next 200 years. Pursuit of life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. Posits reason as the sole political, economic, and cultural authority. Outbids the church as the role as this authority gure. De es previous ideas of the divine right of kings. If something has been done for a long time, the length of time it has been practice does not alone justify its practice. Transition from divine right of kings to popular sovereignty. Beginning of the di erentiation between public places and private places. An act if you will . what you actually feel in your heart is both inaccessible and irrelevant. Modern ideas of religion, where it is a personal matter, arise during the.
