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A 5 page research paper that compares and contrasts the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century with the Enlightenment of the eighteenth. The writer argues that an overview of this period of history shows that the two movements, while different, were distinctly related. The ideas that grew in the Scientific Revolution blossomed in the Enlightenment. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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After these intellectual movements, people would forever look at the world with "modern" eyes, rather than with the view of the Renaissance or the medieval period. In other words, the
ideas propagated at that time changed forever the way people think about the world and themselves. An overview of this period of history shows that the two movements, while different,
were distinctly related. The ideas that grew in the Scientific Revolution blossomed in the Enlightenment. Intellectual links between the two Frenchman Rene Descartes is responsible for initiating the dominant "philosophic
trend of the seventeenth century" (Burns, 1969, p. 566). Descartes (1596-1650) was a devoted advocate of rationalism. But while rationalism was not new, his perspective differed from medieval views
on this topic in that Descartes was adamant about excluding authority (Burns, 1969). Descartes was convinced both traditional sources and the everyday experience were untrustworthy as sources of knowledge. Therefore,
he formulated a new method of obtaining knowledge that relied on deduction and consisted of simple, self-evident truths. In other words, Descartes proposed a way of thinking that forms the
initial foundation for the modern scientific method. Descartes is also at least partially responsible for proposing the idea of the mechanistic universe, as he wrote that the whole world of
matter, "organic and inorganic alike," could be defined in terms of extension and motion (Burns, 1969, p. 567). Therefore, Descartes contribution to the Scientific Revolution is self evident, as he
got the "philosophical ball" rolling, so to speak. Descartes ideas -- in particular the new rationalism and mechanism -- were adopted, for a certain extent, by the vast majority
of philosophers in the seventeenth century. The intellectual successors of Descartes were Benedict (or "Baruch") Spinoza and Thomas Hobbes (Burns, 1969). The intellectual movement begun in the seventeenth century
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