Enlightenment Essays (156 words) - Epistemologists, Metaphysicians

Enlightenment )Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) a)Regarded the human mind of a person as a blank slate. b)Did not believe in intuition or theories of innate conceptions a)Attacked the theory of divine right of Kings. b)Argued that sovereignty did not reside in the state but with the people. 3)Some thoughts concerning education. a)Recommended practical learning to prepare people b)Locke's curriculum included conversational learning of foreign languages, especially French, mathematics, history, physical education, and games. 1)Descartes's philosophy, sometimes called Cartesianism. a)Elaborate explanations of a number of physical phenomena. a)Part of human blood was a subtle fluid, that he called animal spirits. a)Fundamental law of reflection: that the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection. b)Paved the way for the udulatory theory of light. a)Systematization of analytic geometry. b)First mathematician to attempt to classify curves according to the types of equations that produce them