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21 Cards in this Set
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Encyclopedia aimed at...
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secularisation of knowledge based on belief in science, progress and the perfectability of man.
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Essential Ideas of Enlightenment are...
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1. Man is not innately depraved.
2. The aim of life is life itself 3. The essential condition for the good life on earth is freeing men's minds from ignorance and superstition. 4. Man, free of ignorance and of the arbitrary powers of the state, is capable of progress and perfection. 5. Everything is inter-connected, and forms part of the grand scheme of a benevolent Providence. |
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What are the years of the Age of Reason?
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1660-1798
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What is the difference between France and England?
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F: intellectual and political upheaval
E: concentrated on trade, wealth, and agriculture |
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What did Paine publish? What did he fight for?
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"Common Sense" pamphlets for American Revolution; Declaration of Independence/ Declaration of Rights of Man
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What did Wollstonecraft write? What did she argue?
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"Vindiction of Rights of Woman"; "Mind has no sex"
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What was the year of the Glorious Revolution?
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1688
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When were the first encyclopedias published?
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1750
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Previously exiled from England during the Puritan reign of Cromwell...
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Charles II was invited by Parliament in 1660 to return to England and restore the monarchy
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Mary and William replaced...
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James in 1688
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The 1689 Bill of Rights allowed...
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propertied classes to rule through an elected Parliament
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The Act of Settlement prevented ________ and allowed _________.
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Roman Catholic Stuarts from reigning in the future; the throne should go next to James I Protestant relations
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What disasters occured?
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Plague: 1665; 70,000 died
Fire: 1666; 13,000 houses and 88 churches |
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Poems are organized as arguments...
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which praise power of imagination.
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The wedding epitomizes...
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entrance into social community
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Satire was quite popular in...
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ancient Greece and Rome and persisted in the fabliau and beast epic during the Middle Ages
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Horation satire
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tolerant, indulgent, amused and witty
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Juvenalian satire
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biting, bitter, angry
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Satirists and parodists are likely to use...
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exaggeration, incongruity, irony
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Parody is __________, while satire is __________.
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humorous imitation of a style/lit/art; ridicules failing of society
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Rousseau said...
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"Man is naturally good, and only by institutions is he made bad"
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