Let's make some connections now
We see that the Scientific Revolution is growing and gaining knowledge - with the microscope, the ideas of a Sun-centered universe and scientific method of reasoning.
The Protestant Reformation, and the Catholic Counter Reformation, are challenging the previously held beliefs in faith and challenging the power of the Roman Catholic Church...
The Industrial Revolution is shifting how people live and work - the bucolic country life is being abandoned for the urban-centered life with factory work...some of the advancements coming out of the Industrial revolution are iron bridges, ( fig 11.6), steam power and factory production...
Additionally, during the Rococo and late Baroque era, the Age of Enlightenment philosophers were beginning to challenge the status quo - monarchy rule...their thinking moved a little further from the influences of the Church and the Monarch to set the stage for cultural and political revolution (in France and the US)
Rational Humanism - is the broad category the philosophers we've talked about this week fall into.
The scientific revolution was also an influence on the definition of Rational Humanism.
Let's define Rational Humanism of this time.