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Ch 13 Enlightenment Flashcards

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Essay: What is Enlightenment
Author:

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Immanuel Kant

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What is the motto of enlightenment?

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Have courage to use your own reason.

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The Discourse of Method (Enlightenment)

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Rene Descartes

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Rene Descartes: philosophy based on

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Doubt

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Opposed traditional ideas
Popularize science
Advocated for "reason"
Scorned superstition including Christian beliefs
Enlightenment
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French “philosophes”

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Greatest project of the Philosophes

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Encyclopedia

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The cradle of the “Enlightenment”

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Paris

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Discourse on the Inequalities of Man

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Social Contract

Author

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Rousseau

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Emile

Author

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Rousseau

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Confessions (enlightenment)

Author

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Rousseau

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A Treatise of Human Nature
Author
Enlightenment

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David Hume

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Scottish thinker David Hume
Philosophy:
Enlightenment

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Radical Skepticism

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Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding
Author
Enlightenment

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David Hume

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Concerning the Principles of Morals
Author
Enlightenment

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David Hume

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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Author
Enlightenment

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David Hume

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Critique of Pure Reason
Author
Enlightenment

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Immanuel Kant

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Critique of Practical Reason
Author
Enlightenment

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Kant

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19
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Humorous criticism

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Satire

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Gulliver’s Travels
Author
Enlightenment

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Jonathan Swift

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21
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Candide
Author
Enlightenment

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Voltaire

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Marriage a la mode
Artist
Enlightenment

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William Hogarth

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Fran’s Joseph Haydn

Enlightenment

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Musician and composer. Development of sonata

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Enlightenment composer
Child prodigy
Court musician Salzburg Austria 
Freelance musician Vienna
Died in poverty
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Composer: effortless line of melody, growing naturally from opening bar until finale

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Mozart

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Symphony no. 25 in G minor

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Mozart

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Symphony no. 94 in G major “surprise”

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Haydn

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Requiem
Composer
Enlightenment

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Mozart

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Style of design, art: lightness, daintiness, elegance, excessive use of curving. Nostalgia, frivolity, indulgence of senses
Enlightenment

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Rococo style

30
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Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera
Artist
Enlightenment

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Antoine Watteau

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Rococo artists (3)
Enlightenment
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Watteau
Boucher
Fragonard

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The Toilet of Venus
Artist
Enlightenment

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Francois Boucher

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The Swing
Artist
Enlightenment

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Jean-Honore Fragonard

34
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Marie-Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Lebrun (4)

Enlightenment

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Portraitist
Marie Antoinette
Elected to Royal Academy
Escaped during French Revolution

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Portrait with Her Daughter
Artist
Enlightenment

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Vigee-Lebrun

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Style imitated art of Ancient Greece & Rome

Enlightenment

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Neoclassical

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Neoclassical painter
Official artist French Revolution
Court painter Napoleon

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Jacques-Louis David

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Death of Murat

Enlightenment - neoclassical artist

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Jacque-Louis David

39
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The Coronation of Napoleon & Josephine
Artist
Enlightenment neoclassical

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David

40
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Oath of the Horatii
Artist
Enlightenment

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David

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Neoclassical architect
American
Federal period
3rd president
Coauthor Declaration of Independence
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Thomas Jefferson

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Architect designed Monticello and Virginia State Capitol building

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Thomas Jefferson

43
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Kant: ruling principle of morality, do only what one can, unconditional moral obligation binding in all circumstances, not dependent on person’s inclination or purpose

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categorical imperative

44
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Music, drama, literature: concluding portion of work, integrates previous ideas

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coda

45
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Descartes famous statement. Ground human knowledge thru method of doubt.

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cogito ergo sum / I think, therefore I am

46
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deriving a conclusion by reasoning

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deductive method

47
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advocating natural religion, morality, denying interference of Creator with laws of universe

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deism

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relying on observation and experiment, all knowledge based on experience derived from senses: Locke, Berkeley, Hume

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empiricism

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European intellectual movement: faith in science, human rights, human reason, progress

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Enlightenment

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Outdoor entertainment or rural festival (as in 18th century French paintin)

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fete galante

51
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works of art dealing with everyday life, ordinary people

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genre painting

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heroic couplet (Chaucer, Alexander Pope)

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pair of rhyming iambic pentameters

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not subject to being taken away or given away

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inalienable

54
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deriving conclusion by experience, generalized conclusion from particular instances

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inductive method

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famous work by Thomas Hobbes. Advocated totalitarian state, vast bureaucracy based on social contract: avoid continual fear and danger of violent death

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Leviathan

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unchanging moral principals, basis for human conduct, observable law relating to natural phenomena

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natural law

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ideals and characteristics of Classical (Greco-Roman): art, literature, music

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neoclassicism

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idealized concept of uncivilized man, symbolizes innate goodness - not exposed to corrupting influence of civilization

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noble savage

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Writers, thinkers, 18th century French Enlightenment. deism or materialism

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philosophes

60
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associated with Leibniz: world that exists is best of all possible worlds

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philosophic optimism

61
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style of literature: works of Henry Fielding, Rousseau, Goethe.

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Pre-Romantic style

62
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reason rather than experience foundation of knowledge. Enlightenment: Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza

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rationalism

63
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18th century decorous, sensitive style in arts: fanciful curved asymmetrical curves, elaborate ornamentation

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rococo

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regular social gathering, writers, artists, in house of prominent woman

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salon

65
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hypothetical agreement, organized society, secure mutual protection and welfare

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social contract

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quartet on stringed instruments, fist and 2nd violin, viola, cello

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string quartet

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music: composition for orchestra, 3 or 4 movements

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symphony

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tabula rasa (erased tablet or blank slate)

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hypothetical condition: human mind before ideas from senses imprinted. especially at birth. no innate ideas.

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