Deism

Glennette Leshen //Deism-God had no direct involvement in the world he had created//

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 * Prompt: Analyze the ways in which specific intellectual and scientific developments of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries contributed to the emergence of the religious outlook known as “Deism.” **=====


 * Outline**

__** Topic 1: Intellectuals **__

 * Voltaire: Said that God had no direct involvement in the world he had cerated
 * John Locke: “//An Essay Concerning Human Understanding//”- Tabula Rasa
 * Rousseau: “//The social contract//”- Tried to harmonize individual liberty with government authority.
 * Diderot: “//Classified Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Trades//”- Wanted to change the general way of thinking. Attacked religious superstition.
 * d’Holbach: “//System of Nature//”- Argued that everything in the universe consisted of matter in motion. God was the product of the human mind and was unnecessary for leading a moral life.
 * Astell: “//Some Reflections upon Marriage//”- Argued for equality in marriages
 * Montesquieu- “//Persian Letters//”- Criticize Catholic Church and insitutions
 * Hume- “//Treaties on Human Nature//”
 * Descartes- “//Discourse on Method//”- Separation of mind and matter
 * Condorcet- “//The Progress of the Human Mind//”- Humans are about to enter the tenth stage, perfection.

__** Topic 2: Scientific development **__

 * Galileo- “//Starry Messenger//”- Described the new universe
 * Newton**- “**//Principia//”
 * Copernicus: “//On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres//”- Heliocentric theory
 * Brahe- Sun revolved around the earth while the other planets revolved around the sun.
 * Kepler: “//3 Laws of Planetary Motions//”- 1) Orbit of the planets are not circular but elliptical 2)Speed of planet is greater when closer to the sun and decreases when it is father away 3) Planet’s period of revolution is proportional to the cube of it’s average distance from the sun.
 * Brahe- Sun revolves around the earth and the other planets revolve around the Sun
 * Harvey- “//On the Motion of the Heart and Blood//”- Said that the blood is pumped from the heart and not the liver
 * Ptolemy- Said the earth is the center of the universe- Geocentric

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**Thesis Statement**: Intellectuals, by saying that God is a part of the human mind, and scientific development, which stated that the galaxy is not perfect, contributed to the emergence of deism by arguing that God is not apart of the world that he has created. =====