Similarities Between 17th And 18th Century Enlightenment
17th and 18th Century Enlightenment
Dustin Perry
11/30/14
17th and 18th Century Enlightenment
The Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th century was a period in which philosophers, and scientists contributed to society with ideas that were based around reason. This was a very important moment in humanities timeline, since during this time both the church’s and the monarchy’s powers of the world grew less absolute and influential. During this time period the philosophers defended current beliefs, like the existence of god, but tried to promote reason over faith. These philosophers were not sacrilegious but instead realized that you cannot blindly follow something without understanding it and questioning the reason behind it. But religion was not the only topic of interest, philosophers and scientists contributed all kinds of things, for example, Sir Isaac Newton contributed with …show more content…
Although quite different both sets of reasoning attempt to achieve the same goal, although in completely different manners, but the most important aspect of them is they both strive to keep each other in check. Scientific reasoning would be important to use if you were trying to prove something using facts. For example, I would use this if I were trying to find if materials “fall” at the same rate of speed in a vacuum regardless of their weight and shape. Philosophical thinking on the other hand, would be important to use when trying to reason with the morality of what someone or people should do and whether something is true based on critical thinking. For example, should we experiment and test on animals in order to attempt to find a cure for cancer? Another example, would be the one provided prior. Although the outcome of the answer to the fall rate might very well be quite different then if the scientific approach were
Dustin Perry
11/30/14
17th and 18th Century Enlightenment
The Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th century was a period in which philosophers, and scientists contributed to society with ideas that were based around reason. This was a very important moment in humanities timeline, since during this time both the church’s and the monarchy’s powers of the world grew less absolute and influential. During this time period the philosophers defended current beliefs, like the existence of god, but tried to promote reason over faith. These philosophers were not sacrilegious but instead realized that you cannot blindly follow something without understanding it and questioning the reason behind it. But religion was not the only topic of interest, philosophers and scientists contributed all kinds of things, for example, Sir Isaac Newton contributed with …show more content…
Although quite different both sets of reasoning attempt to achieve the same goal, although in completely different manners, but the most important aspect of them is they both strive to keep each other in check. Scientific reasoning would be important to use if you were trying to prove something using facts. For example, I would use this if I were trying to find if materials “fall” at the same rate of speed in a vacuum regardless of their weight and shape. Philosophical thinking on the other hand, would be important to use when trying to reason with the morality of what someone or people should do and whether something is true based on critical thinking. For example, should we experiment and test on animals in order to attempt to find a cure for cancer? Another example, would be the one provided prior. Although the outcome of the answer to the fall rate might very well be quite different then if the scientific approach were