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| What is the contrast between the Ialian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance? |
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The Northern was more religious and art was more emotional and devotional in nature. The Italian was mroe secular in classical humanism and pagan art subjects. |
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What were the similarities between the Northern and the Italian Renaissance? |
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Empasized the individual. A revival of classical learning. |
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| The attempt to REFORM the medieval Catholic church from within and to return to Biblical teaching. |
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| Why is Martin Luther important? |
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He nailed the 95 theses to the door at Witenburg in 1517. Challenged the sale of indulgences. He was a German monk. |
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| What were the core teachings of Martin Luther (the solas)? |
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Sola scriptura - only scripture, for life Sola fide - only by faith, not works The just shall live by faith. |
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| Who were the reformers BEFORE Martin Luther? |
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| John Huss and John Wycliffe |
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| What was the role of John Calvin? |
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Great theologian who agreed with Luther on justification by faith. |
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| What is a main tenet of Calvinism? |
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| Places strong emphasis on the doctrine of election |
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| What is the major theme of the 17th century? |
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Development of the modern secular worldview |
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| Define "Scientific Revolution" |
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| The beginnings of modern science as we know it. It was a period of conflict and discovery. |
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What were some major conflicts in the 17th centruy? |
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Counter-Reformation (religious) Thirty-Years War (political) Science vs. Authority (intellectual) |
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What were some major discoveries of the 17th century? |
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Geographical discoveries Scientific discoveries |
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| Who were some major thinkers of the 17th century? |
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| Copernicusm, Galileo, and Newton |
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| What was the scientific method based upon? |
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| Inductive Reasoning (from specific to more general) |
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In the 17th century, we went from a time of tradition and authority to what? |
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| A time of Observation and Experimentation |
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| Francis Bacon put forth the idea that there are FIVE idols in our lives, the first of which is the idol of the cave. Describe this idol. |
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That we shape our biases on our experiences. |
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| Describe the idol of the tribe. |
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| humanity can only understand so much (Humans are limited) |
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| Decribe the idol of the marketplace. |
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That words can have different meanings (Languages have limits) |
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| Describe the idol of the theatre. |
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| Religious, political, ideological, economic, faith VS. Science (systems of belief are different) |
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| What are the key ideas of the Enlightenment? What were rejected? |
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Reason and Science Tradition and Faith |
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| What was the goal of Enlightenment philosophy? |
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| To comprehend and unify all knowledge through REASON!!! |
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What are some key facts about the Encyclopedie? |
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| Written in France during the Enlightenment (18th century) |
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| Who are the two key figures of the Enlightenment? |
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| Voltaire (1694 - 1778) and Rosseau (1712 - 1778) |
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| Who said this: "Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains."? |
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| Who has had a profound effect on liberals, American culture, law, and education in the past and today? |
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| What are the dates of the Romantic Revolution? |
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| Who was the key figure in the social revolution? What book did this person write? |
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Mary Wollstonecraft "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" |
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Give an example of a Romantic hero during the cultural revolution. |
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Napoleon because he had sweeping ambition, powerful individualism, haughty distance from the ordinary. |
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Name some fictional Romantic heros during the cultural revolution. |
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| Lord Byron, Dr. Frankenstien, Dr. Faust, and Captian Ahab |
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| What is "the source of all that is good," according to the Enlightenment? |
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| Who were key figures in Realism literture? |
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Charles Dickens in England Falubert in France |
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Name a materialist who believed in human progress in the 19th century |
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The belief that there is no reality apart from the material world, closed system. |
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| Name another key figure in the 19th century and the Idea of Progress |
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| What is the connection between Marx and Darwin? |
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The belief in human progress & Product of our material environment |
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| What is the key quote of Modernism? |
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| "Things fall apart, the center cannot hold..." (W.B. Yeats) |
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| Modernism is in what century? |
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| James Joyce wrote what during the Modernism period? |
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| Identify the Renaissance by key ideas or labels that relate to it. |
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| Empiricism, Newton, Galileo, Martin Luther, Copernicus, Thomas Moore, Science Reformation |
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| Identify Enlightenment by key ideas or labels that relate to it. |
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| Identify Romanticism by key ideas or labels that relate to it. |
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| Individualism, Mary Wollstonecraft, Beetohoven, Nature |
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| Identify Materialism by key ideas or labels that relate to it. |
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| Evolutionary theory, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Matthew Arnold |
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| Identify Modernism by key ideas or labels that relate to it. |
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| Fragmentation, Picasso, James Joyce, T.S. Elliot, W.B. Yeats, Sehoenberg, Stravinsky |
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| Ancient Greek temples reveal more clearly than anything else the deeply practical nature of the Greek mind |
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| Medieval men and women "knew" what was true b/c somebody in authority told them what was true. |
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| You cannnot understand the development of institutions such as democracy and capitalism apart from the rediscovery of the ture concept of the "individual" |
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