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Scientific Revolution—Before and After
|Before Scientific Revolution |After Scientific Revolution |
|Geocentric Cosmic Picture |Heliocentric Solar System |
|Celestial and Terrestrial Bodies/Matter Sharply Distinguished |All matter is subject to the same fundamental set of laws |
|Terrestrial beings are primarily knowable in terms of their |All physical beings and how they function are knowable (ultimately) in|
|Qualitative features |terms of mathematics, i.e., Quantitative Relationships. The Bk of |
| |Nature is written in mathematical characters (Galileo). |
|All beings, including natural ones, have internal purposes (final |Either we cannot know the final causes of natural beings (Des-cartes) |
|causes). |or it makes no sense to attribute purposes to non-thinking natural |
| |beings (Hobbes, Spinoza) |
|All of nondivine reality points upward to the Good/God/Unmoved Mover |God may be understood as a divine mechanic, creating and sustaining a |
| |perfectly functioning natural machine. |
|Multiple levels of being |Diverse views, but two of the most influential are |
| |Cartesian dualism (tri-alism if you count God) and materialism (all is|
| |body) |
|Non-reductionistic. Does not deny differences but rank-orders them. |Reductionistic: Tendency to explain wholes entirely in terms of parts.|
| |Atomism in physics, individualism in political theory. |
30 April 2011
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