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AP Euro chapter 18

Terms in this set (17)

Copernican hypothesis
Heliocentric idea, sun is center
Changes worl view
Experimental method
Galileo conducted controlled experiments to observe what actually happened
Galileo's most important discovery
Empiricism
Theory of inductive reasoning to go beyond speculation to compare and analyze the subject,based on experiences
Rationalism
Knowledge is acquired by reason without resorting to experiences
Change world view
Law of universal gravitation
Newton, what goes up must come down
Progress
With proper method of discovery the laws of human existence could help humans create better societies and people
People are able to adapt and change
Skepticism
Belief that nothing can ever been known beyond all doubt and that humanity's hope was to be open minded and tolerant
Less trust between people
Tabula rasa
Blank tablet, Locke's idea that babies are born blank and experiences fill up the tablet
Want to raise children right
The public
All the French economic elite who were seen as educated and enlightened
Controlled most people,far seeing minority
Philosophes
French philosophers, intellectuals who claimed they had the highest of knowledge to their ignorant fellow creatures during enlightenment
Encouraged monarchs to be like them
Separation of powers
The idea that despotism could be avoided when the power was shared by classes and estates holding equal rights so one did not become more powerful
Influenced america's government
Salons
Elegant party where rich women would invite the elite to come and sit to listen to famous philosophers
It was how people formed ideas
Enlightenment
World view played a larger role in shaping the modern mind, three ideas: scientific method, use reason, and progress
General will
Not necessarily will of people, a sacred and absolute reflecting the common interest of all people who have displeased the monarch as the holder of sovereign power
Enlightened absolutism
Despite, the adoption albeit varied of enlightenment governing into the rule of absolute monarchs at insistent of Philosophes, they tell the monarch how to have most power without losing their head
People want power and money
Cartesian dualism
Descartes view of the world as consisting of two fundamental things: mind and matter
Law of inertia
Galileo, rest was not the natural state of objects instead and object will remain in motion until stopped by an external force
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