The Enlightenment Flashcards
During the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, what concepts were transformed? (Philo, phy, sc, reli..)
Concepts of philosophy, politics, religion and science
What did Enlightenment thinking involved questioning the…?
Enlightenment thinking involved the skepticism and questioning of the STATUS QUO
Blake had sympathy for many aspects of Englightenment.
What did he also distrust?
- Church and religion
- State & Government
- Monarchy
- Forms of power & authority
Why were concepts of religion, politics , science and philosophy transform during the late 17-18th centuries?
Because of the Enlightenment period
What kind of ideas did the French Revolution uphold? (I want to break freeee..)
Ideas about human freedoms and equality
What is Empiricism (sight, touch, hearing, smell…)
The BELIEF that we get all our KNOWLEDGE THROUGH what our SENSES EXPERIENCE.
The major thinkers?
FRANCIS Bacon, Isaac Newton and JOHN LOCKE
What does philosopher Locke state?
That we are not born with innate knowledge, our mind must learn everything through the senses
Why did Blake see reason as a form of oppression?
He found that the cultural emphasis of reason is harmful because it DENIES INSPIRATION and EMOTION.
Why is reason uncreative in Blake’s eyes? (Because it goes against WHICH principles?)
Because it goes against the PRINCIPLE of IMAGINATION: CREATIVE ENERGY
What is Unitarianism?
A religious sect that attempted to bring Christianity INTO LINE with the RATIONALISM of the ENGLIGHTMENT.
What did Enlightenment thinking have skepticism for?
Enlightenment thinking had skepticism (and questioned) the STATUS QUO
What was the ENLIGHTENMENT period?
A period in time that involved DRAMATIC REVOLUTIONS in SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY and POLITICS
What views and long held hierarchies did Englightenment thinking try to deploy?
Enlightenment thinking tried to deploy LONG HELD RELIGIOUS and SOCIAL hierarchies
Enlightenment thinking utilized…
rational thinking and long held religious and social hierarchies
