Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
50 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
what was discovered in this era?
|
gracvity - newton
|
|
|
shift to what kind of thinking?
|
scientific
|
|
|
eliminated what?
|
too much emotion
|
|
|
a la de carte
|
I think, therefore I am
|
|
|
neo
|
neoclassicism
|
|
|
2 schools
|
idealists by berkley: mind and spirit form reality
materialists by hobbs: mind and body make ultimate reality |
|
|
family conduct
|
is for the better of society
|
|
|
nature
|
performs exactly as it is supposed to, we should use nature as an example as to how to live our lives.
used as an excuse for imperfection |
|
|
deism
|
belief that God exists but is not involved
|
|
|
convention and authority
|
greek and roman example for writing; each genre has a convention for instruction of people
|
|
|
ancients
|
used roman and greek writing as an example
|
|
|
moderns
|
build on greek and roman example
|
|
|
satires
|
criticism, make-fun and instruct change
|
|
|
hair-shirt
|
made of hair to make the person uncomfortable and to be constatly reminded of religiousness. become more holy. Tartuffe wears it.
|
|
|
orgon
|
father, friend of tartuffe, fooled of tartuffes ways because of his own desire to be pious
|
|
|
tartuffe is allowed what by orgon?
|
overlook family while he is away
|
|
|
the first perfomance of tartuffe
|
performed in versailles with only the first 3 acts. the others were added later
|
|
|
appeals to the king
|
moliere wrote appeals to the king to allow him to perform tartuffe, the rest of the acts were added after these appeals
|
|
|
cleante
|
speaks with reason, he is the middle passage
|
|
|
king
|
the anit-orgon, sets order again in the home
|
|
|
protagonist
|
absolute power in the group. orgon because he teaches us a lesson
|
|
|
neoclassicism
|
look to greeks and romans as a guide
|
|
|
Gullivers travels
|
satire to criticize the brittish
|
|
|
swift
|
born in ireland, fought in the war, hated the brittish
|
|
|
book 1 GT
|
6 people in lilliput
|
|
|
book 2 GT
|
giants, have a prince
|
|
|
book 3 GT
|
Laputta, philosophers, scientists
|
|
|
book 4 GT
|
complex
|
|
|
thematic
|
GT rational freedon
|
|
|
swift said
|
people are capable of reason, not rational beings
|
|
|
hyounams
|
rational, no emotion, pure, perfect. Gulliver becomes obsessed with them and wants to be more like them that he uses the yahoo skin for his personal items
|
|
|
yahoos
|
human - like, fight, gross, diseased, ugly: gulliver realizes that the yahoos are like people and becomes disgusted by them and all humans.
|
|
|
gulliver
|
sees only the faults in people and feels guilty of himself for being so vile
|
|
|
captain mendez
|
good being, proves that love is better and we should aspire to be him rather that a hyounam. he teaches us the lesson to not ignore the good.
|
|
|
candide or ___
|
optimism: Voltaire: popes essay, what ever is, is right
|
|
|
leibniz - theodocy
|
pangloss's ideas came from this
|
|
|
pangloss
|
ignorant
|
|
|
candide
|
nieve, expelled from the castle for kissing cunegonde: says his castle is the greatest because it has a door, a window, and a tapestry
|
|
|
voltaire
|
lived a bad life, mistreated and bankrupt, lived in switzerland and france. referred to france as a garden and he died there.
|
|
|
voltaire: science and the arts
|
to assure happiness to all people, to get into heaven, the purpose in life: to provide progress in science and the arts
|
|
|
candides attack
|
on defective optimism
|
|
|
pangloss 2
|
optimist, got an STD from paquette
|
|
|
cunegonde
|
plump and beautiful, becomes ugly and weathered from her horrible life
|
|
|
anabaptist
|
charitable, good, dies over the side of the ship; dies because candide ins;t done learning
|
|
|
el dorado
|
perfect place; people do science, referring back to voltaires philosophy
|
|
|
martin
|
extreme pessimism
|
|
|
dinner with 6 kings
|
kings down on luck
|
|
|
monach with material items
|
he is bored, teaches candide that materials things do not ensue happiness
|
|
|
marries cunegonde
|
to spite her brother
|
|
|
dervish
|
best philosopher in turkey will not talk about philosophies and slams the door in their face. no point in persuing the question because it doesnt change anything
|
