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The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment PDF

   

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SCIENTIFIC ENLIGHTENMENT1The scientific revolution in the western European countries completely changed theway that the people used to see the world previously. According to the researchers, itoriginated from the renaissance stress and moved Europe from Theocentric toAnthropocentric. Despite the fact that building a secular society was the aim initially butcurbing the power of Pope was the chief objective to challenge the traditional society. Thispaper analyses the influence pf scientific revolution and the enlightenment on the philosopherof the western Europe.Scientific in the middle ages was utilised to make the people realise glory of God andhis creation. The scientific revolution changed the course of thought and shifted focus fromthe religious view and examine universe from the scientific perspective. It promoted criticalthinking dissuading faith. Belief in superstitions and miracles were replaced by rationalthinking. This notion of critical analysis about everything in the society starting from religionand economy to politics along with the optimism that human mind can find solutions ofeverything was branded as the Enlightenment. 16th and 17th century intellectuals mostly thewriters and philosophers had this optimistic understanding that society could be changed forbetter. Writers like Hume and Kant, were chiefly interested in educating people to thinkcritically of everything and the philosophers, such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot andMontesquieu were not only revolutionaries but also reformers. They criticized all the existingpolitical, social and economic structures for improvement.The scientific revolution in Europe proved to be a threat for the power and dominanceof religious because the scientists like Kepler, Copernicus, Galileo Galilei and Newton werequestioning the traditional views of science. The trail and disagreement between thesescientists and the Church symbolised the conflict between scientific knowledge and religiousbeliefs. The traditional teaching of Bible where the earth was in the centre of the universedirectly opposed with Kepler and Copernicus’ theories of universe, law of universal

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