Chapter 16 study flashcards.
How did skepticism about Christianity and European culture nourish?
By travel reports.
What religion was Pierre Boyle and what did he criticize/attack?
He was a Protestant who attacked superstition, religious intolerance, and dogmatism.
What was a bad thing that Denis Diderot did?
Maintain that all Africans were mankind and considered N*****, and a “new species of mankind.”
Who were the 2 Englishmen that inspired the Intellectuals of the Enlightenment?
Isaac Newton and John Locke.
What did Montesquieu believe/insist and why?
Believed and insisted on a separation of powers because he wanted the French nobility to actively help run the French government.
What did Voltaire write? (When, and for what?)
“The Philosophic Letters on the English,” published in 1733, and judged the English religious situation.
What was the 1st natural law of economics made by Francois Quesnay and the physiocrats?
Land constituted the only source of wealth and that wealth itself could not be increased only by agriculture because all other economic activities were unproductive.
What was one thing that Baron d’Holbach argued?
That everything in the universe consisted of matter in motion, and that humans were simply machines.
What did Neoclassical artists want to do with their work?
To recapture the dignity and simplicity of the classical style of ancient Greece and Rome.
