Scientific Revolution/Enlightenment Mini Lesson Presentation

Why is Descartes considered the “founder of modern rationalism

• He developed a methodological epistemology of radical doubt and articulated the standard for knowledge of clear and distinct ideas Called the deductive method.

• He was an early pioneer in the fields of game theory and probability theory. In philosophy he was an early pioneer in existentialism. As a writer on theology and religion he was a defender of Christianity.

• He was one of the leading exponents of 17th-century Rationalism and one of the early thinkers of the Enlightenment.

rationalism

• the belief that opinions should be based on reason and knowledge instead of religious beliefs or emotional response.
• the belief that opinions should be based on religious beliefs or emotional response instead of reason and knowledge.
• Descartes developed a methodological epistemology of radical doubt and articulated the standard for knowledge of clear and distinct ideas Called the deductive method.

he was a French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, inventor, and theologian

• René Descartes
• Blaise Pascal
• Spinoza
• Francis Bacon

He was a creative mathematician of the first order, an important scientific thinker, and an original metaphysician

• René Descartes
• Blaise Pascal
• Spinoza
• Francis Bacon

he was an atheist that leading exponents of 17th-century Rationalism and one of the early thinkers of the Enlightenment.

• Spinoza
• René Descartes
• Blaise Pascal
• Francis Bacon

New Views of Humankind People became less religious and started to be interested in the answers behind the world they live in people became less religious and question the church.

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• false

who discovered and popularized the scientific method, he used observation, experimentation, and his senses to form a method for conducting experiments

• Francis Bacon
• René Descartes
• Blaise Pascal
• Spinoza

rationalized the nation's system of weights and measures; this resulted in the adoption of the metric system.

• The Academie des Sciences in Paris
• Scientific Societies

used to validate and discuss new discoveries that were being made in nature.

• The Academie des Sciences in Paris
• Scientific Societies

he was an early pioneer in the fields of game theory and probability theory. In philosophy he was an early pioneer in existentialism. As a writer on theology and religion he was a defender of Christianity.

• Blaise Pascal
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