Philosophers and Scientist

Name the Polish astronomer who created the Heliocentric Model.

• Copernicus

• Newton

• Kepler

• Galileo

How was the scientific revolution different in how it tried to understand nature vs the medieval way?

• It relied soley on the teachings of the Church.

• It challenged that natural laws even existed.

• It used logic as its main tool.

• It advocated observation and experimentation.

What Enlightenment thinker fought for tolerance, and a freedom of speech and religion?

• Locke

• Voltaire

• Thomas Paine

• Thomas Jefferson

Locke believed everyone is born as a tabula rasa, a blank slate. What does that mean for students?

• Elections should be fair

• Students need to write down everything in order to learn them.

• The government needs to squash free thought.

• Knowledge comes from experience or your perception.

What idea(s) did the Enlightenment promote?

• a belief in human progress

• faith in science

• secular outlook on life

• All the above

What did John Locke argue was the purpose of government?

• Suppress the citizens

• Persecute the Proletariat!

• Protect monarch's divine rights from God.

• Protect citizen's natural rights

How are the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment similar?

• They all tried proving the heliocentric model.

• The Catholic Church supported their ideas.

• Everyone sat in salons (parlors) and shared their ideas over cake.

• They used natural laws to explain the universe.

Which Enlightenment thinker believed in general will. The idea of a will that tries to protect the interests of most of the people in the country?

• Locke

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

• Copernicus

Rousseau and Locke believed in a social contract. What is the social contract?

• It's the terms and conditions for the Gram.

• Members of society cooperate and sacrifice some freedom in order to get benefits

• Oppressive governments need to be destroyed.

• The contract you sign with your homies.

Who pushed the geocentric, or earth centered, view of the universe?

• Marvel

• Copernicus

• Locke

• The Catholic Church