Monday, September 22, 2008

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

The french revolution was a period of political and social change during which the french governmental structure totally changed.The change was based on enlightment principal of nationalism, citizenship and inalienable rights. the french revolution was not only a crucial moment considered in the context of western history, but was also perhaps the single most crucial in british intelectual,political and philosophical life in nineteenth century. During the revolution France was completely changed upside down and with its political change the revolution was perfect. It was completely a new sun rising for France and French revolution.During the course of revolution, france was temporarily transformed from an absolute monarchy to a republic of theoratically free and equal citizens.The influences of the revolution was widespread including the inside and outside of France. And it was indeed one of the most events in the history of Europe.

From the begining of 20th century the french revolution was most commonly described as the growing economic and social importance of the middle class people or bourgeoisi. But they overthrew the old regime because they thought that other classes like: clergy and the nobility were given most powers or priority. And those people were preventing bourgeoisi from accessing to economic and social classes. But it is now believed that The French Revolution started with crisis in its way and in the French state.


The ENLIGHTMENT

the enlightnment is basically the idea about how the goverment works. what are the rights and the issues. The equality of men and women. John locke influence on the enlightment and on the western thoughts encompassed government, philosophy, politics, religion and now what's called psychology. He gave sense experience a name of "emppiricism". In one of his books released in 1690 he said that " every branch of human knowledge--including religion--is based on experience and reflection." In the whole situation one thing that is talked about is that peopel have the right to abolish government but an dthere would be no dictator in the colonies.No laws can be changed. and john locke completely influenced the modern government.

We people always hand over all kind of power to government. But if teh government does something wrong than ordinary people should help fix problems too. And if we are giving the power we should also have the right to abolish it.if government is doing a bad job then its our right and responsibility to throw away rthe government and lauch a fresh government with future security.

Friday, September 12, 2008

COPERNICUS AND THE TRIAL OF GALILEO

Copernicus a scientist is said to be the founder of modern astronomy. Up to the time of Copernicus the thinkers of the western world believed in the Ptolemiac theory that the universe was a closed space bounded by a spherical envelope beyond which there.But Copernicus came up with modern idea and presented a new mathematical theory of hileocentric system.Copernicus was never in a hurry of publishing his theory though his world was circulated among few astronomers of that time. And they thought about it and gave him some attention.

And then came galileo and elaborated the idea of copernicus.And he also defended the idea.Galileo was an Italian scientist.His full name is Galileo Galilei.He discoverd that gravity pulled objects towards the earth.he explored the law of motion.Galileo believed that the earth rotated around the sun.


Galileo was put into a trial by catholic church only because he supported the beliefs of Copernicus.The only problem was that the catholics believed in gencentric astronomy ideas because it was proved by bible.Galileo was condemmed to life in prison because he didn't attend the trial.






Thursday, September 11, 2008

THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

Scientific revolution begun at 1543.Different people have different views towards what's in the universe.hundreds of years ago ancient greek people thought that earth is situated at the center of the universe and all other planets revolves around it.But all these ideas are not true at all and we came to know this because of scientific revolution. Years passed by and the thoughts and ideas of people changed. They came up with new and improved idea towards earth and where it is situated.The revolution is a new way of thinking which changed everything and challenged those old meaningless ideas.

A new technique named scientific method came up which is a cyclic. there is a process of doing it.And result comes clear after trying.Scientific method is the idea of experimenting something again again and then tp prove or disprove ideas.Scientific rebolution can be called as natural science and technological change.

Scientific revolution was a new way for researchers and scientist to acuire knowledge and correcting previous knowlegde.Scientific revolution helped change the world and all the things that are working now.Scientisits like Nicolas copernicus, galileo gave many idea and peoplebefore them gave many idea scientificly without any logic and sometimes with logic. But none of them relly worked out well. but the revolution happened and now its logically perfect and good for us to believe.

Friday, September 5, 2008

Evolution vs. Creation

According to Darwin "The theory of evolution is the widely held notion that all life is related and has descended from a common ancestor"that means that one or other every doesn't matter if it's fruits or animals all are related to each other.It also means that evolution happens from generation to generation or from day to day.Even if someone is growing taller from shorter thats an evolution. As people or scientists predicts that monkeys eventually turned into human...even if it hapened that we can consider as an evolution.The changes of nature also happens which we can consider as an evolution. The changes of nature doesn't happen over night. It's always a slow process.Evolution is a slow process but it surely happens.


On the other hand creation is considered as a religious belief somtimes and something related to God.Evolution have logic and creation have beliefs. It has been said that the term Creationism is used to refer to religiously motivated rejection against evolution.People who believe in evplution doesn't completely believe in creation. Because studies abd research shows that creation believers believes that god created everything and they liked themeselves to be compared to monkeys.

Once upon a time United states even passed laws in several states against the teaching of evolution in public scools.The theme of evolution was completely deleted from the textbooks untill the 1960's. Teahing was only about creationism in America.


Its all about beliefs i woukd say. If somone believes in God then they are going to believe what God has created for themand on the other hand if we dont believe in God then we'll have to distinguish between evolutionas and it can be scientifically observed such as bacteria mutations etc.There should be no force to belive in creation or evolution. Even after being a good scientist one can believe in creationism.