Western Civilization Chapter 17

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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


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