Western Civilization Chapter 17
The scientist-philosopher who provides a link between the scientists of the 17th century and the philosophes of the next was
Bernard de Fontenelle
The leader of the Physiocrats and their advocacy of natural economic laws was
Francois Quesnay
European music in the later eighteenth century is best associated with
Haydn and Mozart, who shifted the musical center from Italy and Germany to the Austrian Empire
Who said that individuals will forced to be free if they did not obey the general will?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Voltaire was the author
all of the above
John Locke's tabula rasa refers to
blank mind
The purpose of Diderot's Encyclopedia, according to him, was to
change the general way of thinking
The Baroque-Rococo artistic style of the eighteenth century was
evident in the masterpieces of Balthasar Neumann
Carnival was celebrated in the weeks leading up to
lent
The growth of reading and publishing in the eighteenth century was aided and characterized by the development of
magazines for the general public
The works of Fontenelle
popularize a growing skepticism toward the claims of religion
In The Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu argued that the best political system in a modern society is one where
power is divided between the three branches of government
According to Rousseau, the source of inequality and the chief cause of crimes was
private property
Rousseau's influential novel, Emile, deals with these key Enlightenment themes:
proper child rearing and human education
Voltaire was best known for his criticism of
religious intolerance
Adam Smith believed that government
should not interfere in people's economic decisions
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 belief in natural laws underlying all areas of human life led to
the emergence of the "science of man"
The French philosophes
were literate intellectuals who meant to change the world through reason and rationality
The Jews of eighteenth-century Europe
were most free in participating in banking and commercial activities in tolerant cities
