Test Flashcards
What did Kepler propose?
Proposed that the planets’ orbits are elliptical
What did Tycho Brache propose?
Proposed earth is the center, sun revolves around the earth, and all else revolves around the sun
What are epicycles?
They are life cycles
Who invents the telescope?
Galileo
What did Bellarmine SJ think?
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”.
Deism
The clockmaker
Voltaire’s Candide
Satire against Christian belief in providence, enormously popular
Providence
God oversees all human events
Descartes’ philosophy is built on the concept of systematic doubt. What is this?
You must doubt all things
Who was Pascal?
Mathematical genius who invented a calculator, carried out experiments that proved he existence of a vacuum, and he began probability theory/calculus.
What did Pascal write but not finish?
Pensees = “thoughts”
What is a wager?
A bet
What is the enlightenment?
The call to follow the “light” of reason and to leave the behind the “darkness of faith and superstition”.
Deism
Belief in an all powerful, impersonal Supreme being - like Newton’s “clock maker” God.
What put forth capitalist theory?
Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations out forth capitalist theory.