above all else? In Bertolt Brechts‚ The life of Galileo‚ the idea of the Catholic church controlling information is a central theme. The conflict of intellectual freedom; between the individual and authority. The Life of Galileo suggests that it is only through the process of questioning – and engaging that society can learn and grow‚ and one should treasure their intellectual freedom‚ as depicted through the main character‚ Galileo. When Galileo discovers new evidence about the rotation of the
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Galileo would be considered a heretic because of how he disagrees with the church and how he disagrees with the Bible. In Galileo’s letter to Duchess Christina of Tuscany in 1615 Galileo states that “... [Professors against Galileo] made a grave mistake of sprinkling [Galileo’s work] with passages taken from the places in the Bible‚ which they failed to understand properly.” Galileo thinks that the professors are cherry picking the Bible to disprove his work. The passages that the professors used
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consequences‚ even if those consequences were death. In Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo‚ the reader is presented with a man who is driven to seek scientific truths‚ while also working with the society/Church that would berate him for his studies and findings. The following paper utilizes the story of Galileo as a foundation for discussing the difficulties of scientists who seek the truth when it conflicts with the ideas of the society. Galileo by Bertolt Brecht Brecht’s play actually comes in apparently two
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Life of Galileo – Notes * Two stories. * 1609 – Galileo – a famous scientist – astronomer. * He is credited with inventing the telescope – although he pinched the idea off somebody else. * He was a bit immoral – Always broke – Short on money. * Then he discovered that the earth moves around the sun. * This was a very serious situation for him‚ because at that time‚ the Catholic Church was very powerful – The Church has always taught that the sun moved around the earth.
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Galileo Galilei is a man known for greatly improving the telescope‚ discovering Jupiter’s four largest moons‚ and being the man who experimented with falling objects in the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He was an Italian astronomer‚ mathematician‚ and a physicist. He gave important contributions to science‚ especially in the field of astronomy. With his telescope‚ he discovered the moon’s spherical shape and rough texture‚ Venus’ phases‚ and Jupiter’s moons that do not revolve around earth. All which contradicted
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Galileo lived in a time of division and repression between religious and scientific theory‚ where most writings were incendiary and disincentivized unity. His letter to the Grand Duchess Christina worked against what most of his contemporaries were peddling. Galileo’s assertions of separation in the meanings of scientific and religious thought powerfully achieve his goal of reconciling the conflict between science and religion. He does this by using credible sources to discredit those who speak against
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The beginnings of these social changes are forever encapsulated in the works of this period. Galileo claims that the physical should solely be studied by means of the senses and reasoning. This opposed the natural order of the universe in his time. He was well aware that his concepts were new‚ in regards to his position in time. He knows that his
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In Galileo’s letter to Castelli‚ Galileo explores the validity of the many interpretations of the Holy Scripture. Galileo states that if the “Holy Scripture can never lie or err and that its declarations are absolutely and inviolably true‚” but its interpretations are not always true. He also states that taking the text literally would create not only “contradictions‚ but also serious heresies and blasphemies”. Galileo explains since Scripture is a dictation of the Holy Spirit has to be dictated
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Galileo‚ Descartes‚ and Newton were only some of the enlightened thinkers responsible for the shift in scientific understanding. Previously‚ science in Europe did little without relying on the church‚ but these scientific thinkers set the stage for a modern scientific model that separated the spiritual from the physical and strived to learn the natural laws that governed the physical world. Each one of these men‚ through their different researches‚ helped Europe see a world that was not necessarily
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