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World Lit
The Enlightenment
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Undergraduate 2
10/27/2009

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John Dryden
Definition
Who wrote a poem about the Deist view that the Bible can't be true because the things in it aren't general laws that apply to people everywhere?
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Deism
Definition
clockwork universe with clockmaker God
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Revealed religion
Definition
God revealed 10 commandments to Moses
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religion, civil authority (government), or nature
Definition
Diderot wrote that there are 3 forces that we can choose from to follow. What are they?
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90%
Definition
During the 1800-1900s, ___% of people were in agriculture.
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1649-1789
Definition
What were the years for the Age of Enlightenment?
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July 4, 1776
Definition
Independence Day is recognized as this date.
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1776
Definition
American Revolution was in this year
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1789
Definition
French Revolution was in this year
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18th Century
Definition
This was known as the Sociable Era (coffeehouses)
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Copernicus
Definition
Who came up with the idea that the sun was the center of the universe?
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John Locke
Definition
Who's essay was concerned with human understanding?
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Sensationalism
Definition
John Locke came up with this term to describe something related to the senses
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tabula rasa
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John Locke mentioned this referring to our minds as blank slates.
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Great Chain of Being
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This is an example of what?: God > Angels > Humankind > Animals > Plants > Minerals
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Diderot
Definition
Who said this: "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
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Age of Reason
Definition
The Enlightenment was also known as ___.
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Neo-Classical Period
Definition
The Augustan Age was also known as ___.
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England
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Country that had relative amount of religious and political freedom
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Deism
Definition
clockwork universe run by clockmaker God; believe in God but he doesn't intervene
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Empiricism
Definition
If you want to learn something, observe it
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Sensationalism
Definition
all knowledge comes from senses
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Copernicus
Definition
sun was center of solar system
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Novel
Definition
new literary form about middle class
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Multiculturalism
Definition
many cultures blended together
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Agnostic
Definition
uncertain of all claims to knowledge
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Aristocrat
Definition
nobility; a privileged class holding hereditary titles
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tabula rasa
Definition
mind is a blank slate
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bourgeoisie
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middle class
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wit
Definition
form of intellectual humor
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decorum
Definition
appropriate social behavior
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e pluribus unum
Definition
out of many, one
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melting pot
Definition
mix of everything
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misanthrope
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person who hates people
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Locke
Definition
Who believed that we should respect property because it belongs to God?
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England
Definition
country with most religious tolerance
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True
Definition
True/False
Novel invented, dealt with social class, property.
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False
Definition
True/False
Vast majority were deists
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Mary Wollstonecraft's Rights of Women
Definition
Which writing believed that changing education would change the view of women, and that men are only superior by strength so women should be treated equally?
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