Chapter 17 - Age of Enlightenment
published travel accounts of different cultures
-saw the origin of the idea of the "noble savage" -led to the development of cultural relativism -presented an image of "natural man"
Voltaire was the author of
-treatise on toleration -the plays Edipe and Henriade -Philosophic Letters on the English
A less brutal approach to justice and punishment in the eighteenth century is associated with
Beccaria
The scientist-philosopher who provides a link between the scientists of the 17th century and the philosophes of the next was
Fontenelle
The leader of the physiocrats and their advocacy of natural economic laws...
Francois Quesnay
Deism is the belief that
God created the universe but does no actively run it
The eighteenth century musical piece that could appeal to everybody
Handel's Messiah
European music in the later eighteenth century is best associated with
Haydn and Mozart, who shifted the musical center to Austria
The French painter who work represented the continuing appeal of Neoclassicism was
Jacques-Louis David
who said that individuals will be forced to be free if they did not obey the general will
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The philosopher who proclaimed the motto of the Enlightenment as "dare to know" was...
Kant
An early female philosophe who translated Newton's Principia and was Voltaire's mistress...
Marquise du Chatelet
The English writer who argued in A serious proposal to the ladies that women should be educated
Mary Astell
The composer considered the most innovative who composed the opera "The marriage of Figaro" was
Mozart
John Locke's tabula rasa refers to...
a blank mind
According to The Social Contract, the "general will" was...
a social consensus to which the individual must bow
the religious movement that came to be known as methodism
became an independent sect from the angelican church
The purpose of Diderot's Encyclopedia according to him was to
change the general way of thinking
The author of the progress of the human mind and who became a victim of the french revolution
condorcet
By the end of the eighteenth century
corporal and capital punishment were on the decline
What two countries did some ordinary protestant church goers choose new religious movements
england and germany
high culture in the eighteenth-century Europe was characterized by the
enormous impact of the publishing industry
The baroque-rococo artistic style of the eighteenth century was
evident in the masterpieces of balthasar neumann
the jews of eighteenth century europe
freely participated in banking activities in tolerant cities
A cheap and popular alcoholic drink in eighteenth century England was
gin
Isaac Newton and John Locke...
inspired the enlightenment & wanted reason to rule politics
pogroms were
instances of massacring and looting of jewish communities
carnival was celebrated in the weeks leading up to
lent
The growth of reading in the eighteenth century was characterized by the development of
magazines for the general public
The strongest statement and vindication of women's rights during the enlightenment was made by
mary wollstonecraft
Writers in England, used this new form of literary expression to attack hypocrisies of the era
novels
the recognized capital of the enlightenment was...
paris
the works of Fontenelle
popularize a growing skepticism with the claims of religion
in the spirit of laws, Montesquieu argued that the best political system in modern society was
power divided between three branches
According to Rousseau, the source of inequality and the chief cause of crimes was
private property
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
The punishment of crime in the eighteenth century was often
public and very gruesome
Voltaire was best known for his works on...
religious tolerance
Which of the following statements concerning salons is not true.
salons were used by the wealthy but shunned by government officials
Adam Smith believed that government
should not interfere in people's economic decisions
in the eighteenth century Europe, churches, both catholic and protestant
still played a major role in social and spiritual areas
European intellectual life in the eighteenth century was marked by
the emergence of secularization
The belief in natural laws underlying all areas of human life led to
the emergence of the "science man"
The french philosophes mostly included people from
the nobility and middle class
the rococo artist Antoine Watteau emphasized
the pleasure and joy of aristocratic life
Enlightened thinkers can be understood as secularists because they strongly recommended...
using the scientific method to understand life
the encyclopedia...
was a 28-volume compilation of articles
Montesquieu's Persian Letters
was a method that allowed him to criticize French monarchy
the french philosophes...
were intellectuals who meant to change the world w/ reason