Western Civ 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 philosophers
Denying Descartes belief in innate ideas, John Locke argued that every person was born with
A blank slate
The Rousseau, the "General will" was
A social consensus to which the individual must bow
The French Rococo painter who portrayed the aristocratic life as refined, sensual, and civilized was
Antoine Watteau
The purpose of Diderot's encyclopedia, according to him, was to
Change the general way of thinking
Concerning the European legal system, by the end of the 18th century
Corporal and capital punishment were on the decline
In reaction to significant elements of rationalism and deism, in what two countries did some ordinary Protestant churchgoers choose new religious movements
England and Germany
High culture in 18th century Europe was characterized by the
Enormous impact of the publishing industry.
The Rococo artistic style of the 18th century was
Evident in the masterpieces of Balthasar Neumann
The 18th century musical composition that has been called one of the rare works that appeal immediately to everyone, and yet is indisputably a masterpiece of the highest order is
Handel's Messiah
European music in the later 18th century was well characterized by
Haydn and Mozart, who shifted the musical center form Italy and Germany, to the Australian Empire.
Pogroms were
Instances of massacring and looting of Jewish communities
The growth of reading and publishing in the 18th century was aided and characterized by the development of
Magazines for the general public
Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher, defined the enlightenment as
Man's leaving his self caused immaturity
The strongest statement and vindication of women's rights during the enlightenment was made by
Marry Wollstonecraft
The religious domination founded by John Wesley in England to provide a more emotionally fulfilling religious alternative, to the church of England was
Methodism
18th century writers, especially in England, used this new form of literary expression to attack the hypocrisies of the era and provide sentimental entertainment to the growing numbers of readers.
Novels
Johann Sebastian Bach
Produced religious music as a way to worship God
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 18th century was often
Public and very gruesome.
And early female philosopher who published a translation of Newton's Principia and who was the mistress of Voltaire was
The Marquise du Chatelet
A key new type of enlightened writing fueling skepticism about the "truths" of Christianity and European society was
Travel reports and comparative studies of old and new world cultures
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
The scientist-philosopher who provides a link between the scientists of the 17th century and the philosophers of the next was
Fontenelle
Voltaire was best known for his criticism of
Religious intolerance
In 18th century Europe, churches, both Catholic and Protestant,
Still played a major role in social and spiritual areas
The Jews of 18th century Europe
Were most free in participating in banking and commercial activities in tolerant cities
