EURO ST 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Immanuel Kant, Nicolaus Copernicus, Paradigm Shift
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The publication date of kant"s essay what is enlightenment . Foundations laid by the protestant reformation, the dawn of the scientific revolution, a new humanist turn to reason, the birth of the nation state, and the rise of capitalism (the bourgeoisie) What we will cover and not cover . Not a general overview of the enlightenment as a movement from approx. Included major figures like leibniz, locke, voltaire, diderot, rousseau, Kant wrote that he was introducing a kind of copernican turn in philosophy. In many ways he brought about a paradigm shift . Such that old problems came to be looked at in entirely new ways. Kant did not use this word as we might namely, in the sense of a (negative) evaluation of something. Rather, he meant that in each case he was looking at the special nature and limits of particular aspects of our intellects.
