Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Historical Tendencies on Social
Sciences.
- SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
- Refers to historical changes in thought & belief, to
changes in social & institutional organization,
that unfolded in Europe between roughly
1550-1700
- Science emerged as a distinct mode of
inquiry in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries during this period.
- Began with Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543), who asserted a heliocentric
cosmos.
- It ended with Isaac Newton (1642-1727), who
proposed universal laws and a Mechanical
Universe.
- EMPIRICISM
- Is a theory that states that knowledge
comes only or primarily from sensory
experience.
- It is one of several views of epistemology,
the study of human knowledge, along with
rationalism and skepticism.
- Emphasizes the role of empirical evidence
in the formation of ideas, over the idea of
innate ideas or traditions
- RATIONALISM
- Is the epistemological
view that "regards
reason as the chief
source and test of
knowledge or any view
appealing to reason as
a source of knowledge
or justification.
- Is defined as a methodology or a theory
"in which the criterion of the truth is
not sensory but intellectual and
deductive"
- EVOLUTIONISM
- Evolutionism is a world-view, which seeks to
explain every aspect of this world in which we
live.
- It encompasses a wide variety of topics, from
astronomy to chemistry to biology.
- At its core, it teaches that there were different stages in the
evolution of our universe
- POSITIVISM
- Is a philosophical theory stating that certain
("positive") knowledge is based on natural phenomena
and their properties and relations.
- Positivism also holds that society, like the physical world,
operates according to general laws. Introspective and
intuitive knowledge is rejected, as are metaphysics and
theology.