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What did Kepler propose?

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Proposed that the planets’ orbits are elliptical

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What did Tycho Brache propose?

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Proposed earth is the center, sun revolves around the earth, and all else revolves around the sun

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What are epicycles?

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They are life cycles

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Who invents the telescope?

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Galileo

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What did Bellarmine SJ think?

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If all this is true, we will have to rethink our understanding of scripture. He recommended to Galileo that he offer heliocentric theory as a “conjecture”.

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Deism

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The clockmaker

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Voltaire’s Candide

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Satire against Christian belief in providence, enormously popular

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Providence

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God oversees all human events

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Descartes’ philosophy is built on the concept of systematic doubt. What is this?

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You must doubt all things

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Who was Pascal?

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Mathematical genius who invented a calculator, carried out experiments that proved he existence of a vacuum, and he began probability theory/calculus.

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What did Pascal write but not finish?

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Pensees = “thoughts”

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What is a wager?

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A bet

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What is the enlightenment?

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The call to follow the “light” of reason and to leave the behind the “darkness of faith and superstition”.

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Deism

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Belief in an all powerful, impersonal Supreme being - like Newton’s “clock maker” God.

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What put forth capitalist theory?

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Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations out forth capitalist theory.

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What did Edward Gibbon write?

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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

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Hat did Copernicus propose?

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That the sun is the center. This is the heliocentric theory.

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Immanent

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God is remaining with/in us. God cares deeply about us.

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Dis-cerno

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To separate, to apart, distinguish.

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Ignatius’ criterion is like what?

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It’s like the “Principle of Foundation”.

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Describe Pascal’s Wager

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  1. Humans are infinite and cannot understand God. Proofs are useless.
  2. Human life is miserable. To be without activities is to realize how miserable you are.
  3. Many people try to keep active or they seek endless entertainment.
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What does Diderot say?

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Our nature is good. Evil choices come from bad reasoning. Education improves us.

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Ignatius on discernment

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