By the end of the early modern period, the structure and orientation of higher education had changed in ways that are eminently recognizable for the modern context. Aristotle was no longer a force providing the epistemological and methodological focus for universities and a more mechanistic orientation was emerging. The hierarchical place of theological knowledge had for the most part been displaced and the humanities had become a fixture, and a new openness was beginning to take hold in the construction and dissemination of knowledge that were to become imperative for the formation of the modern state. COUNT 5
QSN1 At the end of what period would universities become alike to contemporary universities? ANS1 the end of the early modern period QSN2 What type of focus did universities have at the end of the early modern period? ANS2 mechanistic QSN3 What replaced theological studies in universities at the completion of the early modern period? ANS3 humanities QSN4 The change in universities towards the completion of the early modern period is credited with the formation of what entity? ANS4 the modern state QSN5 The study of the humanities at the end of the early modern period replaced the study of the work of what individual? ANS5 Aristotle