Apparent Connections Amidst Science, Politics, and Religion Within today's society science is an entity almost entirely separate from religion and politics, yet history paints a different picture. ... Politics and religion often inspired new discoveries and perspectives in relation to science. Jacob mentions that the natural philosophers "looked forward to the progressive purification of religion and a moral reformation to which science was seen as being crucial."" ... This inspired scientists to reach new frontiers via scientific discoveries for the benefit of religion. ... The...

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The influential figureheads of the Enlightenment period are cast over vastly different areas of expertise. ... These included the arts, religion, and science. ... Roadblocks and doubters aside, brave actions throughout many other great philosophers, such as Martin Luther who, like Galileo, was harshly punished for their "treason" against the church. ... Martin Luther's opinions transcended into a new religion and split the most dominant religion in Europe. ... That feat alone, aside from the mathematical, astronomical, and scientific laws established, was the greatest factor in the overa...

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From the perspective of the emerging Western philosophers and human scientists; that is, humans not belonging to their known European culture. ... A growing contemplation that humans might be alike as a biological species, and that it was culture that perhaps created our differences, gave way to a freedom to explore that these 'Others' may be capable of the same moral fabric and practice lives with values that contributed to a very slow growth of acceptance for some philosophers and scientist. ... " (Pg. 14) The second precondition according to Mazlish that served in the emer...

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