was a reaction to the Enlightenment and had many differences to it. Enlightenment thinkers and romantics agreed on the ideas of individuality and man’s limitations‚ but disagreed on how science should have been used‚ how society should have been run‚ and how a person should base their opinions. Both the Enlightenment and Romantic thinkers believed that the individual self is very important.
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Individual: Famous Thinkers Paper Information about the thinker’s contributions to society: Famous thinkers have little in general with what makes them accomplish his or her level of accomplishment. Creative ideas are the groundwork of the creative process (Goodman & Fritchie‚ 2011). Several of these thoughts revolve around finding a decision to a predicament‚ or altering the way people think about impending issues. Two renowned thinkers: Bertrand Russell and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‚ individually
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Romantic and Enlightenment thinkers were very interested in the natural world and human nature. They both looked at inspiration and nature as a great source of learning man’s limits in the natural world. They also looked to natural laws‚ the principles that governed nature and society‚ and respected them in all aspects of their lives. Mary Shelly was a Romanticist who took natural laws seriously in her novel Frankenstein which taught us not to challenge the natural world because nature will take
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on which to base our opinions off of. It ’s the way that we seek information and how we apply it that makes us dependent or independent thinkers. If we uncritically accept whatever values or ideas we ’ve been taught by parents‚ teachers‚ or church‚ never questioning these ideas or asking ourselves if these ideas really make sense‚ then we are dependent thinkers. Independent thinking means making sense of the world based on your own observations and experiences rather than just depending on the word
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Famous Thinkers PHL458 August 12‚ 2013 Charles Crenshaw Famous Thinkers: Peter Singer and Bill Gates A thinker is an individual who reasons intellectually; this individual generally shares his views and theories with other thinkers and with society. The contributions made to humanity can be valuable and frequently encourage others to ponder the same issues. Other thinkers may become supporters or challengers to another. There have been many famous thinkers that have
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An Successful Enlighten Thinker: John Locke John Locke (1632-1704) is a Philosopher and Physician. He was known as one of the most affective Founding Father of Enlighten movement. Because of his past occupation‚ who used to persuade to become a doctor‚ he understood how people’s lives‚ and what was the best form of government that they need. Locke’s theories in the Second Treaty of Government and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding‚ and his State of Nature‚ for examples‚ have influenced people
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Enlightenment leaders strongly believed that by using the scientific methods developed during the Scientific Revolution‚ they will be able to continue to explore and prove the laws of society and human nature. Influential thinkers from the Enlightenment period include Thomas Hobbes‚ John Locke‚ Baron de Montesquieu and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Hobbes believe that all humans are naturally selfish‚ greedy and wicked. Locke wanted to figure out the purpose of government. He wanted
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Plato‚ or Aristocles as is his real name‚ was one of the most influential thinkers of history. Plato set up a school called the Academy in Athens in 387 BC. He wrote down his ideas in the form of dialogues‚ or discussions between people. The dialogues explain Plato’s metaphysics or ideas on subjects such as politics‚ law‚ science‚ education‚ art‚ and the nature of knowledge. One of the best known dialogues is The Republic‚ in which Plato describes his idea of an ideal‚ or perfect‚ government. All
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in the day everyone had a different idea of how we learned and how our bodies connected to the mind‚ some thought we were born with our knowledge and others believed we gained it through previous events and our memories. All of the prescientific thinkers contributed to the development of the basic idea that our knowledge originates in experience‚ which is called empiricism. The 1600’s began the relationship between human spirituality and modern science. This was an age when people began to realize
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I Am a Critical Thinker Now HUM 114 Matthew Fallasen‚ MM‚ MBA Critical thinking is a careful examination in which a person utilizes facts and evidence to form their own conclusions to certain situations. Edward Glaser explains that critical thinking calls for a persistent efforts to examine any belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the evidence that supports it and the further conclusion to which it tends (Glaser‚ 1941). Edward Glaser provides a great insight to the importance
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