Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution

Which of Fredrick the Great's policies suggested Enlightenment thinking?

major Scottish Enlightenment figure; religious skeptic; like Locke, learning is through sense experience

 saw sickness as chemical rather than humoral imbalances; experimental method in medicine

combined experimental method with mathematical-theoretical reasoning and physics

questioned reason as the sole provider of truth/knowledge; thought society corrupted children; women are inferior

witty essayist; Spirit of Laws - major work of comparative govt; separation of powers

God and nature are the same; deterministic universe and lack of free will

revolutionized study of anatomy

major reformer of criminal justice system; fairness, no torture

heliocentrism; earth is just another planet; got rid of notion of crystal spheres; used math rather than philosophy

matter in motion, Cartesian dualism (mind - body); analytic geometry; kept deductive reasoning primary

politically suspect (exiled from France); classic social philosophe; popularized science; deist

bridge to secular, non-traditional world; Haskalah

circulation of blood through veins

Which of Joseph II's policies suggested Enlightenment thinking?

tabula rasa; human development is a product of education and environment/social institutions; sensationalism

Which are true about Catherine the Great?

one of the earliest public non-theists

empiricism and scientific method; inductive reasoning; his followers created the Royal Society

Encyclopedia; teach people to teach themselves to think critically; religion and intolerance questioned

experimental method; law of inertia; worked on telescope; don’t rely on established authority without experiment/proof