Essay Questions with correct answers
What 2 centuries were the centuries of the philosophers? - answers17th and 18th
centuries.
What did the philosophers hope to accomplish? - answersNew ways to improve and
understand their society.
What 2 tools did the philosophers believe are necessary to find out the truth of things? -
answersObservation and reasoning.
What is another name for the Enlightenment period? - answersAge of Reaon
How did Isaac Newton inspire the philosophers to believe in Natural laws and human
society? - answersMaking observations and reasoning about gravity.
Natural law example? - answersWhat comes up must come down
philosophe - answersA thinker that loves wisdom and learning one thing, like theories.
natural law - answersTruths in patterns in nature.
universal - answersEverywhere all the time.
social sciences - answersFields of study of how humans behave Ex. psychology
Isaac Newton inspires the philosophers to believe in what? - answersNatural laws and
human society.
Gravity is the force that... - answersPulls objects to earth. It is the same force that holds
planets in orbit around an unmoving sun.
All of John Newton's work is now called... - answersNewton's Laws