PPT-Chapter 15: Age of Reason

I Scientific Discoveries Scientific Discoveries Two principal authorities during the Middle Ages Ancient philosophers Church tradition The Scientific Method Recognize the inadequacy of existing knowledge to explain a given question. License . and Terms of . Use. Anyone may use this PowerPoint file to support presentations under the following terms. :. No . editorial or content changes may be made to any of the . component slides. Thomas Aquinas. Questions to be addressed in this chapter. What . was the focus of Thomas’s thought?. How does Thomas argue that God exists?. What is the relationship between reason and revelation in his thought?. 1750-1800. Representative Government . The idea of representative government was in keeping with the long-standing English traditions of limiting royal power.. Natural Rights. The writings of British philosopher John Locke profoundly influenced America's founding fathers and 18th century thought. Locke justified limiting royal authority and proposed that all human beings have natural rights and are entitled to political and economic freedom regardless of birth. . Both an Address (1942) and a Book (1947). Our Focus: The Book. The Circumstances. On Sept. 27, 1942, Lewis gave a talk on miracles at the Church of St Jude on the Hill, London. He later used some of that talk for the book, and the talk is now incorporated into . Jeremy Seligman. The University of Auckland. Reason and Passio. n. “We speak not strictly and philosophically when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them” . Rationalism. Rationalism. – . the belief that human beings can arrive at truth by using . reason. , rather than by relying on the authority of the past, on religious faith, or intuition.. REASON! . Historical Context. American Revolution. ; growth of patriotism. Development of American character/democracy. Use of reason as opposed to faith alone . (compared to Puritan writing which was focused on faith).. ‘Two extravagances: to exclude reason, to admit only reason.’. Blaise. Pascal, 1623-62. Thanks to Richard van de . Lagemaat. , Theory of Knowledge for the IB Diploma, . Cambridge University Press. Space is something absolutely uniform, and without the things placed in it, one point of space absolutely does not differ in anything from another point of space.. Now, from hence it follows (supposing space to be something in itself, besides the order of bodies among themselves) that it is impossible there should be a reason why God, preserving the same situations of bodies among themselves, should have placed them in space after one certain particular manner and not otherwise—why everything was not placed the quite contrary way, for instance, by changing east into west. . 1750-1800. Representative Government . The idea of representative government was in keeping with the long-standing English traditions of limiting royal power.. Natural Rights. The writings of British philosopher John Locke profoundly influenced America's founding fathers and 18th century thought. Locke justified limiting royal authority and proposed that all human beings have natural rights and are entitled to political and economic freedom regardless of birth. . Gary Paulsen . Text . Exploration. Chapter 10 and 11. Hatchet. Characterization. – Brian has had many successes and failures since he has crash landed the plane; all of which have changed him mentally and physically. List as many adjectives that describe Brian’s mental and physical state. . Ch. 18 answer key. In Search of Natural Laws. What two things did Newton’s laws show?. Newton’s laws showed that with good information people can correctly predict the movement of any falling object on Earth and they can predict the movement of the moon and the planets.. th. and 18. th. centuries who called themselves rationalists.. Rationalism. -the belief that human beings can arrive at truth by using reason, rather than by relying on the authority of the past, on religious faith, or on intuition.. Percentage of Total NSF . Research . Funding. YEAR: 2008. Research for a reason.. CHARTS AND VISUALIZATIONS. Incoming Freshman Average ACT Scores – UL Lafayette. 1999-2009. Research for a reason.. CHARTS AND VISUALIZATIONS.