INTELLECTUAL
REVOLUTIONS
Brix Bastian Panganiban
What is Intellectual Revolution?
Refer to Greek speculation about the
“nature” in the period before Socrates
(roughly 600-400 BCE).
"pre Socratic" or "non-theological" or
"first philosophy". – more on physics
or logic
Showed how society was transformed by
science and technology
Copernican Revolution
Copernican Revolution, shift in the field of
astronomy from a geocentric understanding of
the universe, centred around Earth, to a
heliocentric understanding, centred around the
Sun, as articulated by the Polish astronomer
Nicolaus Copernicus in the 16th century.
•A polish Mathematician
and Astronomer
• Developed his model of a
Sun- centered universe
• Explained the daily and
yearly motion of the sun Nicholas Copernicus
and stars in the universe. Revolutionary Astronomer
•Started the birth of the
astronomy
• The center of the solar
system is not the Earth
but actually the sun
Heliocentric Model
• Scientific
revolution/transformatio
n of society’s thoughts
and beliefs
Darwinian Revolution
One of the most controversial intellectual of its time
••
An English naturalist,
geologist and biologist.
• Published his books, On
the Origin of Species.
• Complex creatures evolve
Charles Darwin
from more simplistic
ancestors naturally over
time.
•Population pass through a
process of natural selection in
which only the fittest would
survive.
•All species of organisms arise
and develop through the natural Theory of
selection of small, inherited Evolution
variations that increase the
individual's ability to compete,
survive, and reproduce.
Freudian Revolution
•An Austrian neurologist
and the founder of
psychoanalysis, a clinical
method for treating
psychopathology through
dialogue between a patient
and a psychoanalyst.
Sigmund Freud
•Emphasized the
importance of the
unconscious mind on
behaviour
• Freud believed that the
human mind was
composed of three Freud’s Theory
conflicting elements: the
id, the superego and the
ego.