soc sci 100 2nd le

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Modernity

A sign of a rupture; device for positing significant historical breaks; characterize the epoch in terms of its discontinuity with the past.

die Entzauberung der Welt

disenchantment of the world

Renaissance

During this time, writers are concerned with wisdom, virtue, and morality; artists preoccupied with nature, beauty, and reason; represented a revival of the classic vision of the moral greatness of the individual and his or her ability to discover truth and wisdom

Protestant Reformation

questioned and challenged the supremacy of the Roman Catholic Church; the work of humanists moving beyond what they considered the constraints of church theology

Industrial Revolution

 A period of scientific and technological development; transformation from largely rural, agrarian societies to industrialized, urban societies

Enlightenment

This is the human being’s emancipation from its self-incurred immaturity and man’s release from his self-incurred tutelage.

Scientific Revolution

Period in European history when, arguably, the conceptual, methodological, and institutional foundations of modern science were first established.

Humanism or Rejection of Theocentrism

Trigger for Scientific Revolution

Continuist View

Religion and medieval natural philosophy provided the foundations upon which the Scientific Revolution was built; Christianity provided the necessary but insufficient resources for the emergence and persistence of modern science