Western Civilization chapter 17
Published travel accounts of different cultures
All of these are correct.
The author of The Progress of the Human Mind and who became a victim of the French Revolution was
Condorcet
The leader of the Physiocrats and their advocacy of natural economic laws was
François Quesnay.
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.
The philosopher who proclaimed the motto of the Enlightenment as "Dare to know!" was
Immanuel Kant.
The French painter whose work represented the continuing appeal of Neoclassicism was
Jacques-Louis David.
Carnival was celebrated in the weeks leading up to
Lent
The English writer who argued in A Serious Proposal to the Ladies that women should become better educated was
Mary Astell.
John Locke's tabula rasa refers to
a blank mind.
Pogroms were
instances of massacring and looting of Jewish communities.
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
According to Rousseau, the source of inequality and the chief cause of crimes was
private property.
Rousseau's influential novel, Émile, deals with these key Enlightenment themes:
proper child rearing and human education
Isaac Newton and John Locke
provided inspiration for the Enlightenment by arguing that through rational reasoning and the 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.
In eighteenth-century Europe, churches, both Catholic and Protestant,
still played a major role in social and spiritual areas.
An early female philosophe who published a translation of Newton's Principia and who was the mistress of Voltaire was
the Marquise du Chatelet.
The belief in natural laws underlying all areas of human life led to
the emergence of the "science of man."
Montesquieu's Persian Letters
was a method that allowed him to criticize the Catholic Church and the French monarchy.
The Jews of eighteenth-century Europe
were most free in participating in banking and commercial activities in tolerant cities.
