RESTORATION NOTES ADDITIONS TO: Introduction through The 18th Century ADDITIONS TO: Introduction through The 18th Century
COMPARISION TO COLONIES COMPARISION TO COLONIES / people / million / Post-American Revolution (by 1783) / Million / By Million (TRIPLED IN 17 YEARS!) /1/ people /1/ million /P/Post-American Revolution (by 1783) /3/3.125 Million /B/By Million (TRIPLED IN 17 YEARS!)
Early, Prominent Members of Royal Society ~Robert Doyle- considered the founder of Modern Chemistry ~Christopher Wren- architect- design/ built St. Paul’s Cathedral ~Robert Doyle- considered the founder of Modern Chemistry ~Christopher Wren- architect- design/ built St. Paul’s Cathedral
THREE (3) MAJOR PHILOSOPHIES FOLLOWED BY THE EARLY MEMBERS OF THE RESTORATION PERIOD
DEISM Product of the Age of Enlightenment A RELIGION BASED ON REASON AND THE OBSERVATION OF NATURE Product of the Age of Enlightenment A RELIGION BASED ON REASON AND THE OBSERVATION OF NATURE
DEIST PHILOSOPHERS / ROSSEAU / VOLTAIRE / KANT / (EMBRACED THE AGE) *Accepted God as Creator of the Universe, but REJECTED the notion that God might break laws governing that Universe; which denies reality in scriptures. ******FREE-THINKING****** / ROSSEAU / VOLTAIRE / KANT / (EMBRACED THE AGE) *Accepted God as Creator of the Universe, but REJECTED the notion that God might break laws governing that Universe; which denies reality in scriptures. ******FREE-THINKING******
MORE DEISM DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND PREAMBLE TO CONSTITUTION “We are endowed by the Creator with Certain, unalienable rights” DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND PREAMBLE TO CONSTITUTION “We are endowed by the Creator with Certain, unalienable rights”
COLONIAL DEISTS / BEN FRANKLIN- / discovered electricity / THOMAS JEFFERSON / Wrote Dec. of Independence / THOMAS PAINE / Wrote “The Age of Reason” / BEN FRANKLIN- / discovered electricity / THOMAS JEFFERSON / Wrote Dec. of Independence / THOMAS PAINE / Wrote “The Age of Reason”
RATIONALISM Emphasizes the authority of human reason * Belief that all knowledge and truth consist in what is ascertainable by rational processes of thought, and there is NO SUPERNATURAL REVELATION Emphasizes the authority of human reason * Belief that all knowledge and truth consist in what is ascertainable by rational processes of thought, and there is NO SUPERNATURAL REVELATION
RATIONALISM EVOLVES 17TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHICAL RATIONALISM 18TH CENTURY CULTURAL RATIONALISM
MATERIALISM Holds everything in a state of CONCIOUSNESS EVERY HUMAN CONCIOUSNESS is caused by CHEMICAL REACTIONS Holds everything in a state of CONCIOUSNESS EVERY HUMAN CONCIOUSNESS is caused by CHEMICAL REACTIONS
MATERIALISM DEFINED * Material is the basic reality of the Universe; hence that everything is material or can ultimately be shown to derive from matter. ****DENIES SPIRITUALITY**** * Material is the basic reality of the Universe; hence that everything is material or can ultimately be shown to derive from matter. ****DENIES SPIRITUALITY****