Science as Cultural Revolution
The Science of
Cultural Revolution emerged with the works of Nicholaus Copernicus around 1543
when he published, “On the Revolutions of
the heavenly Spheres.” Many other
scientific works continued after his death such as Andreas Versalius with his
drawings of “Father of Anatomy,” Galileo Galilei who discovered mountains on
the moon and Jupiter moons, Johanne Kepler, who formulated the laws of
planetary motion, Isaac Newton, who invented concepts of laws of motion and
calculus, and many other scientific thinkers.
Historically, the scientific movers and shakers of the cultural
transformation were male, however, a few aristocratic women had the leisure and
connections to participate in the scientific networks of these men.
However, I do not
find it surprising that women were confined to their social role in
society. The women’s role was
concentrated in motherhood and to serve their male partners. Women who wanted to work or explore science
lived in Germany such as Maria Winkelman, who discovered a comet. However, they were excluded in the scientific
world. Furthermore thereafter, it was
not until the Enlightenment, they were able to explore science and be
recognized in science.
Sketch of the Progress of the Human Mind by Marquis De
Condorcet
Condorcet
informs us that humans can be sincere, noble-minded, truthful, faithful if
inequality did not exist. The
destruction of inequality between individuals and classes develops
evilness. This endless progress of
conditioning the human mind prolongs human good. Condorcet’s Nine Grand Epochs
of the past identifies the true rights of a man without infringing on common
equality. Condorcet’s Tenth Epoch identifies the future
of man has no limits. Finally, Condorcet discusses human life expectancy with
refinement of improving oneself while preserving equality and natural
rights.
As
I perceived, Condorcet efforts to illustrate the moral and political science in
the Ninth Epoch and in the Tenth Epoch, elaborated his speculations. Significantly, he tried to reach his ideas
of equality, education, reason, science, human rights, democracy, life,
liberty, pursuit of happiness by “Sketch of the Progress of the Human
Mind.” However, his ideas remained in
structure through his writings; however, his ideas have not been achieved
yet. For example, in a capitalist
system, there remains social regression and oppression worldwide. Condorcet’s objective was to affect people through
his educated thoughts in hopes to stimulate peace. However, many of his ideas are not valid in
our human race as long as there remains oppression, power, and authority.
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