The Wider Intellectual Context: the Coming of the Age of Science and Reason (Edexcel A-Level History): Flashcards

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John Locke and His Essay Concerning Human Understanding - 1690
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Empiricism definition

All knowledge comes from experience and observation

Year Essay Concerning Human Understanding published

1690

Locke's blank slate concept (tabula rasa)

Mind at birth is empty, void of all knowledge

Primary qualities (Locke)

Size, shape, solidity - objective and unchangeable

Secondary qualities (Locke)

Colour, smell, taste - subjective and variable

Two sources of experience (Locke)

External observation and internal reflection

Materialism definition

Everything in universe created by matter (physical substance)

Locke's view on knowledge of spirits

Impossible to arrive at certain knowledge of them

Locke's patron who enabled his writing

Earl of Shaftesbury

Year Locke returned permanently to England

1688 (Glorious Revolution)

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Changing Attitudes to Witchcraft in Britain

The Wider Intellectual Context: the Coming of the Age of Science and Reason

The North Berwick Witches in Scotland, 1590–91 and the Aftermath to 1597

The Lancashire Witches of 1604–13

The Great Witch-Hunt in Bamberg, Germany, 1623–32

Matthew Hopkins and the East Anglian Witch Craze, 1645–47

Cotton Mather and the Salem Witch-Hunt, 1692–93

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Summary

Changing Attitudes to Witchcraft in Britain

The Wider Intellectual Context: the Coming of the Age of Science and Reason

The North Berwick Witches in Scotland, 1590–91 and the Aftermath to 1597

The Lancashire Witches of 1604–13

The Great Witch-Hunt in Bamberg, Germany, 1623–32

Matthew Hopkins and the East Anglian Witch Craze, 1645–47

Cotton Mather and the Salem Witch-Hunt, 1692–93

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Summary

Changing Attitudes to Witchcraft in Britain

The Wider Intellectual Context: the Coming of the Age of Science and Reason

The North Berwick Witches in Scotland, 1590–91 and the Aftermath to 1597

The Lancashire Witches of 1604–13

The Great Witch-Hunt in Bamberg, Germany, 1623–32

Matthew Hopkins and the East Anglian Witch Craze, 1645–47

Cotton Mather and the Salem Witch-Hunt, 1692–93

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Summary

Changing Attitudes to Witchcraft in Britain

The Wider Intellectual Context: the Coming of the Age of Science and Reason

The North Berwick Witches in Scotland, 1590–91 and the Aftermath to 1597

The Lancashire Witches of 1604–13

The Great Witch-Hunt in Bamberg, Germany, 1623–32

Matthew Hopkins and the East Anglian Witch Craze, 1645–47

Cotton Mather and the Salem Witch-Hunt, 1692–93

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