Ap euro chapter 17
Diderot's most famous contribution to the Enlightenment's battle against religious fanaticism, intolerance, and prudery was his
28-volume Encyclopedia compiling articles by many influential philosophes
The best statement of laissez-faire was made in 1776 by
Adam smith
The German philosopher Immanuel Kant proclaimed the motto of the Enlightenment to be
Dare to know!
In reaction to significant elements of rationalism and deism, in what two countries did some ordinary Protestant churchgoers chose new religious movements?
England and Germany
The establishment of the modern fictional novel is generally attributed to the
English
John Locke's philosophy contributed to the development of Enlightenment ideas by arguing that a person's character was shaped by
Environment, not by innate ideas
The scientist-philosopher who provides a link between the scientists of the 17th century and the philosophes of the next was
Fontenelle
The eighteenth century musical composition that has been called one of those rare works that appeal immediately to everyone, and yet is indisputably a masterpiece of the highest order is
Handel's Messiah
Who said that individuals "will forced to be free"?
Jj Rousseau
created his evangelical Methodist movement using revivalist techniques
John Wesley
Great Britain led the way in the eighteenth century in producing
Magazines, newspapers, coffee houses
The strongest statement and vindication of women's rights during the Enlightenment was made by
Mary Wollstonecraft
Which eighteenth-century composer was considered most innovative and wrote the opera, The Marriage of Figaro?
Mozart
Eighteenth-century writers, especially in England, used this new form of literary expression to attack the hypocrisies of the era and provide sentimental entertainment to growing numbers of readers:
Novels
The recognized capital of the Enlightenment was
Paris
For Rousseau, what was the source of inequality and the chief cause of crimes?
Private property
Voltaire was best known for his criticism of
Religious intolerance
The belief in natural laws underlying all areas of human life led to
The social sciences
The Rococo artistic style of the eighteenth century was
evident in the masterpieces of Balthasar Neumann
In Rousseau's The Social Contract, he expressed his belief that
freedom is achieved by being forced to follow what is best for all or the "general will."
By the beginning of the eighteenth century, most European states
had a hierarchy of courts to deal with civil and criminal cases
Above all, Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws was concerned with
maintaining balances among the various branches of government.
The works of Fontenelle announce the Enlightenment because they
popularize a growing skepticism toward the claims of religion.
Johann Sebastian Bach
produced religious music as a way to worship God.
Rousseau's influential novel, Emile, deals with these key Enlightenment themes:
proper child rearing and human education
Of great importance to the Enlightenment were the salons, which
provided a forum for discussing the ideas of the philosophes.
Isaac Newton and John Locke
provided inspiration for the Enlightenment by arguing that through rational reasoning and the human acquisition of knowledge one could discover natural laws governing all aspects of human society.
The punishment of crime in the eighteenth century was often
public and very gruesome.
European intellectual life in the eighteenth century was marked by the emergence of
secularization and a search to find the natural laws governing human life.
An early female philosophe who published a translation of Newton's Principia and who was the mistress of Voltaire was
the Marquise du Chatelet.
Deism was based on
the Newtonian world-machine with God as its mechanic, designing the universe in accord with rational laws.
Enlightened thinkers can be understood as secularists because they strongly recommended
the application of the scientific method to the analysis and understanding of all aspects of human life.
The French philosophes
were literate intellectuals who meant to change the world by advancing reason and rationality.
The Jews of eighteenth-century Europe
were most free in participating in banking and commercial activities in tolerant cities.