To what extent has the Enlightenment ideal that science
functions as the only valid universal criteria for legitimate knowledge
been achieved? Your essay might examine key developments in medicine
and science since the eighteenth century, such as Mesmerism or animal
magnetism, hypnotism, physics, biology and geology, electricity and
electro-magnetism, psychology, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud, and other
technological developments. Your essay should also deal with how this
Enlightenment ideal of science affected religion and “magic.” How did
these ways of knowing adapt given the pre-eminence of science?
functions as the only valid universal criteria for legitimate knowledge
been achieved? Your essay might examine key developments in medicine
and science since the eighteenth century, such as Mesmerism or animal
magnetism, hypnotism, physics, biology and geology, electricity and
electro-magnetism, psychology, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud, and other
technological developments. Your essay should also deal with how this
Enlightenment ideal of science affected religion and “magic.” How did
these ways of knowing adapt given the pre-eminence of science?