AP Euro FRQ scientific thinking
1. Explain the development of the scientific method in the seventeenth century and the impact of scientific thinking on traditional sources of authority.
During the 17th Century, a new, inquisitive, perspective of the world emerged within the upper and aristocratic cultures due to the need for technology for shipping, determining lent, and growing crops and the gradual decrease of deliberate church trust. The new perspectives of thinkers like Sir Francis Bacon, and René Descartes would eventually change the way we view our world and the things around us by using empirical and deductive methods to come to conclusions, what we know as the scientific method. Though not all leaders encouraged the scientific revolution, the scientific method impacted traditional authority of government by bringing about new ways to find prosperity though technology, and therefore improve the state and the lives of the people. The Scientific method, created from the ideas of Bacon and Descartes, produced a new perspective to observe the world around you from and encouraged deductive reasoning and empiricism, which led to improved technology and eventual improvement of the state. Sir Francis Bacon was one of the first to formalize the empirical method. Rather than blindly trusting the church or logic, Bacons new method advocated for validity through experimentation. Though this meant that many Aristolean scientific law could be disproved putting the church at wrong, the method was accepted within the realms of enlightened despots countries. Descartes was the first to advocate for deductive reasoning. Throughout the centuries, inductive reasoning or trust within the church were the means of reason. Descartes opposed this with his Discourse on a Method were he described and showed the advantages of skepticism and therefore advocating deductive reasoning. Descartes also discusses the “Cartesian Dualism” which justified his work with deductive reasoning. The Cartesian Dualism stated
During the 17th Century, a new, inquisitive, perspective of the world emerged within the upper and aristocratic cultures due to the need for technology for shipping, determining lent, and growing crops and the gradual decrease of deliberate church trust. The new perspectives of thinkers like Sir Francis Bacon, and René Descartes would eventually change the way we view our world and the things around us by using empirical and deductive methods to come to conclusions, what we know as the scientific method. Though not all leaders encouraged the scientific revolution, the scientific method impacted traditional authority of government by bringing about new ways to find prosperity though technology, and therefore improve the state and the lives of the people. The Scientific method, created from the ideas of Bacon and Descartes, produced a new perspective to observe the world around you from and encouraged deductive reasoning and empiricism, which led to improved technology and eventual improvement of the state. Sir Francis Bacon was one of the first to formalize the empirical method. Rather than blindly trusting the church or logic, Bacons new method advocated for validity through experimentation. Though this meant that many Aristolean scientific law could be disproved putting the church at wrong, the method was accepted within the realms of enlightened despots countries. Descartes was the first to advocate for deductive reasoning. Throughout the centuries, inductive reasoning or trust within the church were the means of reason. Descartes opposed this with his Discourse on a Method were he described and showed the advantages of skepticism and therefore advocating deductive reasoning. Descartes also discusses the “Cartesian Dualism” which justified his work with deductive reasoning. The Cartesian Dualism stated