Shaping Modern Worldview: The Scientific Revolution

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The modern science paradigm was a great period for the establishment of new worldviews. The Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution were three major cultural interpretations that helped to shape the new modern worldview. There was the new heliocentric model of the universe created by Copernicus, Kepler’s laws of planetary motion, and Galileo’s new method of analysis to study celestial motion that created advancements in astronomy. Bacon’s advancements toward the natural sciences, DesCartes’s philosophical foundation for the creation of a new science, and Newton’s universal theory of gravity through the combination of all the ideas before him we were able to gain new knowledge about the world around us that was not available before the Scientific Revolution. Thus, a …show more content…

Because of the revolution, he was able to rejoin the knower with what is known, but; he was not able to join the knower to any objective reality, to the specific object itself. In Kant’s Copernican revolution, we can see the advancement of him civilization as his schism served as a pivot moving us from the modern era to the postmodern era. In this evolution it was made clear, and mutual between all philosophers of the time, that there was a fundamental principle that the correspondence of the human mind to the world around us was ultimately not dualistic but participatory.
Nietzsche felt that consciousness itself arose only because of the need to communicate. He advocated for individuality denouncing society and its needs as a whole. Nietzsche was opposed to civilization because he felt that the interests and demands of the masses would swallow individuality. Anything that requires putting the interests of the majority over, or restraining, the exceptional individuality inside all of us was of great opposition to

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