Isaac Newton and John Locke

question 92

Multiple Choice

Isaac Newton and John Locke

• A) created two antagonistic religious systems of thought.
• B) provided inspiration for the Enlightenment by arguing that through rational reasoning and the acquisition of knowledge one could discover natural laws governing all aspects of human society.
• C) claimed that mathematics and science would bring about the cure for the evils of society but only very slowly.
• D) said the philosophes were the prophets of the future and that their rejection of the scientific revolution was justified.
• E) had little influence on the later Enlightenment as they were perceived to be figures of the "old" seventeenth century.

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