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Western Civilization
Chapter 22
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02/25/2007

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conservatism
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championed tradition over reason
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liberalism
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aimed to secure the liberty and equality proclaimed by the Revolution
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Nationalism
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sought to liberate subject peoples and unify broken nations
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Romanticism
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plead for the liberation of human emotions and the free expression of personality
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mechanism
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sought to fit all life into a mechanical framework
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The Confessions
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an autobiography by Jean Jacques Rousseau
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William Blake
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wrote "The Reasoing Power in Man" = a British poet
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Johann Goethe
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"Germany's great poet" = wrote in Faust
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John Keats
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an author = romanticism time
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William Wordsworth
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held that poetry yielded the highest truth
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Etienne Condillac
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a prominant French philosophe
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Nepomucene Lemerci
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determined that there were 26 rules for tragedy, 23 for comedy, and 24 for the epic, in writing
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Victor Hugo
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the dominant figure amoung French romantics
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Caspar David Friedrich
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a romantic
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the unconscious
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what Freud called of the romantics exploring the inner life of the mind
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Friedrich Schlegel
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a romantic author
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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poet and conservative political thinker
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Ernst Cassirer
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"never meant to politicize but to poeticize" the world
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idealism
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the romantics' stress on the inner person
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David Hume
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s Scottish empiricist and skeptic
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Immanuel Kant
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rescued science from Humes assault
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Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel
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a German philosopher
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Karl Marx
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an important radical young Hegelian
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Edmund Burke
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wrote a piece that was instrumental in shaping conservative thought
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reactionaries
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the leading conservative theorists on the Continent =Joseph de Maistre and Vicomte Louis de Bonald
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Joseph de Maistre
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fought any kind of religious or political liberalism
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Vicomte Louis de Bonald
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detested the French Revolution, defended the monarchy, and attacked the rational spirit of the Enlightenment as an enemy of faith
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John Stuart Mill
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a British philosopher that liberals agreed with
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Thomas R. Malthus
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an Anglican cleric and professor of history and political economy
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Essay on the Principle of Population
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Malthus asserted that population grows at a much faster rate than the food supply
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David Ricardo
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gave support to Malthus's gloomy outlook in Principles of Political Economy
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the Economist
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where an editorial was published about protesting against a bill parliament that sought to improve housing and sanitary conditions
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Sir Charles Wood
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chancellor of the Exchequer
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Alexis de Tocqueville
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French political theorist and statesman
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Democracy in America
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written by Tocqueville based on his travels to the United States
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William Cobbett
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a crusading journalist
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Thomas Paine
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denounced reverence for tradition, defended the prinicple of natural rights in his work The Rights of Man
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Jeremy Bentham
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rejected the doctrine of natural rights as an abstraction with no basis in reality, and he regarded the French Revolution as an absurd attempt to reconstruct society
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philosophical radicals
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followers of Bentham
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Socialists
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argued that the liberals' concern for individual freedom and the radicals demand for extension of the suffrage had little impact on the the poverty, oppression, and gross inequality of wealth that plagued modern society.
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Henry Comte de Saint-Simon
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renounced his title during the French Revolution and enthusiastically preached the opportunity to create a new society
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Charles Fourier
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believed that society conflicted with the natural needs of human beings and that this tension was responsible for human misery.
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phalansteries
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communities Fourier sought to create that would let men and women to enjoy life's simple pleasures.
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Robert Owen
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became part owner and manager of the New Lanark cotton mills in Scotland
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Johann Gottfried Herder
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a prominant German writer
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R.J. Hollingdale
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observed the "Romantic" image
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E.J. Hobsbawm
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a british historian
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