The document discusses the origins of social sciences in the 19th century. It emerged from western philosophy and was most intentionally developed with the positivist philosophy of science. While early forms of sociology existed previously, the scientific analysis of society is unique to the intellectual developments of the Enlightenment period. Key influences included the moral philosophy of the time as well as the French Revolution. The 1700s known as the Age of Enlightenment saw a focus on shedding light through new knowledge and innovations which drove progress, led by important thinkers like Locke, Voltaire, and Newton.

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2. The history of the Social Sciences has origins in the Common
Stock of western philosophy and shares various prelursors, but began
most intentionally in the early 19th century with the positivist
philosophy of Science.
The idea that Society may be studied in a standardized and
objective manner, with Scholarly rules and methodology is
comparatively recent. While there is evidence of early Sociology in
medievalism and while philosophers such as Confucius had long
science theorized on topics such as social roles, the scientific analysis
of “man” is peculiar to the intellectual break away from age of
enlightment and focused on discourses of modernity. Social science
came forth from the moral philosophy of the time and was influenced
by the Age of Revaluation and the French Revolutions. The beginning
of the Social Science in the 18th Century are reflected in the grand
encyclopedia of Diderot, with articles from Rousseau and other
proneers.

12. • The 1700’s are known as the “Age of Enlightenment”
• Leaders looked back to the ‘darkness’of past (period of the
unknown) and wanted to shed light (knowledge) on society, thu
giving rise to change and allow progress for the future.
• Enlightenment started in Italy
• New scientific Research & Innovations developed
• Major Thinkers- Francis Backon, Rene Descarte, Immanual
Kant, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Montesque, Voltaire,
Rousseau, Issac Newton.

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