TURNING POINTS IN HISTORYRenaissance, Scientific revolution, Reformation and Enlightenment
Christianity ironically produced during this time a thinker who championed ARISTOTLE! His name was Thomas Aquinas. Though he gave arguments for God, he accepted all of Arstotle’s tenets and laid the questioning seeds of his own Religion, Christianity.
The world was witnessing a resurgence, a renaissance.
It started with the great art movements with pioneers like Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci and others.
People realised that they are supreme, that man and this world needs to be understood, and then came the scientific revolution and this time with full observations and experimentation. Thus Inductive method took central stage, thanks mainly to Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo but especially due to Newton who made breathtaking and astounding generalizations and proved them and showed what IS proof!
He discovered the laws of motion and gravitation not on earth alone but as applied to the whole world, he made heaven and earth one and obviously weakened the religious fairy tales, in the world at large.
Slowly, as centuries passed, science came up with more and more and more discoveries, in electricity, magnetism, fluids, atomic structure of matter, heat, in the causes of chemical reactions, the classification of all elements in a periodic table,processes in living thins --astounding discoveries were made and man came of age.
Then slowly the kingly rule too was challenged and Christianity too, via Reformation of Church. There were the American and French revolutions. These proclaimed that Man had rights as an individual and right means nobody could take away his right to life, freedom and to work.
This was enshrined in especially the American constitution and a great secular, man centric country came into being. Man had finally learnt how to organise himself, and capitalism was born, rooted in man’s rights and not the collective rights or God.