Glossary

Question 1

Luther

Answer 1

reformist, Catholicism at this time was very exclusive and traditional but Luther thought that religion should become more populated with a change in vernacular…objected iconography

Question 2

Philology

Answer 2

study of ancient texts

Question 3

Radical humanism

Answer 3

focus of human life and achievements; don’t think of them as a subject but rather their experiences

Question 4

Philistine

Answer 4

people who are willfully ignorant, persistently rejects disinterested, wants everything according to rule and utility

Question 5

Zoroastrianism

Answer 5

ancient Persian religion

Question 6

Nihilist

Answer 6

one should reject the idea of values…doesn’t apply to Nietzsche

Question 7

Epistemology

Answer 7

the study of knowledge

Question 8

Metaphysics

Answer 8

the study of reality apart from our presence, science

Question 9

Catharsis

Answer 9

the purging of feelings

Question 10

Subjective

Answer 10

what is going on inside of the viewer

Question 11

Objective

Answer 11

what is out there (they are always two different things)

Question 12

Representation

Answer 12

image that a person makes in their brain when they hear or view something, processing creates the experience

Question 13

Disinterestedness

Answer 13

free from arbitrary rules of power, religion, law etc that impinges in the arts