Intellectual Revolution

CopernicanRevolution

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Copernican Revolution Ever since the introduction of Ptolemy’s geocentric understanding of the universe in the 6th century, many scientists have made breakthroughs that paved the way for modern day astronomy such as: Nicolaus Copernicus’ Heliocentric model Galileo Galilei’s observations Isaac Newton’s Discovery of the Laws of Gravity

Intellectual Revolution

It was the time where shifts in certain paradigms occurred.

FreudianRevolution

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Freudian Revolution These are Sigmund Freud’s beliefs and ideas that provided the foundation for the birth of modern day psychoanalysis. It is the belief that people’s subconscious thoughts and feelings can influence their behaviour.

Ioanians

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Ioanians The earliest records of these thinkers was found in Ionia, on the western coast of modern Turkey In the town of Miletus. The Ionians were one of the four major tribes that the Greeks considered themselves to be divided into during the ancient period; the other three being the Dorians, Aeolians, and Achaeans. Unlike the austere and militaristic Dorians, the Ionians are renowned for their love of philosophy, art, democracy, and pleasure – Ionian traits that were most famously expressed by the Athenians.

Xenophanes

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Xenophanes Xenophanes of Colophon was a Greek philosopher, theologian, poet, and critic of religious polytheism. Xenophanes is seen as one of the most important Pre-Socratic philosophers. Eusebius quoting Aristocles of Messene says that Xenophanes was the founder of a line of philosophy that culminated in Pyrrhonism. He went in a different direction. Instead of using logic to understand nature, he used logical methods to understand the Greek gods.

Pythagoras

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Pythagoras Pythagoras of Samos was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graecia and influenced the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and, through them, Western philosophy. Believed that the ultimate reality (arché) to be numerical in nature. Meaning anything can be represented in a numerical form.

DarwinianRevolution

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Darwinian Revolution It is the effects brought upon Charles Darwin’s theories and principles. Namely the theory of revolution and the belief in natural selection. Combined, these concepts contradicted and argued with many theories as how life arised in the Earth. Creationism Theory

InformationRevolution

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Information Revolution It is the period wherein the information is widely popularized by the means of early forms of digital means. Meaning it is the start of the rapid improvement of various technologies that paved the way for modern day computers and different pieces of tech used either for industrial or personal reasons.

Thales

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Thales Thales of Miletus was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Ionia, Asia Minor. He was one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Argued that the primary substance the Ionians looked for was water because of its ability to exist in all states of matter.

Heraclitus

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Heraclitus Heraclitus of Ephesus was an Ancient Greek, pre-Socratic, Ionian philosopher and a native of the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire. Heraclitus was of distinguished parentage, but he eschewed his privileged life for a lonely one as a philosopher. Defined a supreme entity or deity as Logos or “rational principle”.

Parmenides and Zeno

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Parmenides and zeno Zeno was the son of a certain Teleutagoras and the pupil and friend of Parmenides. In Plato's Parmenides, Socrates, “then very young,” converses with Parmenides and Zeno, “a man of about forty”; but it may be doubted whether such a meeting was chronologically possible. Contradicted Heraclitus in his statements. They claimed that something either “is” or “is not”.