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53 Cards in this Set
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What were the first questions? |
Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going? |
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Why humanities? |
Provides a toolkit for the well-formed life -Body, mind, and spirit -The world does not recognize Biblical tools |
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Everything we love about Western Civ is the result of |
Christianity |
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What is the thesis of this course? |
Worldviews make a difference |
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Barna Statistics |
Indicate Christians are increasingly accepting values of secular world view |
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What does Michelangelo's caricature indicate? |
Represents humanity's greater concern with modern technology/social life than with God; represents the ignorance of our society as changing worldviews take their place |
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2 different perspectives about purpose of education? |
1) Education is how a healthy society turns its children into members of society 2) free humans from outmoded tradition universe is to be used by man selfish reasoning |
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What is a worldview? |
a set of presuppositions we hold about the basic makeup of the world |
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What does worldview function as? |
glasses/lenses through which we see and interpret; a mental map/navigational chart |
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What is the Christian worldview? |
The world is real and knowable OBJECTIVE and not SUBJECTIVE does not revolve around me |
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God created the world within a... |
moral order |
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Today in the west, it's _____ v. _____ |
Christianity v. Post-modernism |
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4 points of a secular worldview: |
1) purpose of education is to create a new man & eliminate traditions of the past 2) no such thing as truth and gender; make your own reality 3) ultimate relativism: all ideas are valid 4) you can be a GOD! |
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Ideas have ______. |
consequences |
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What was the point of clip from Chariot's of fire? |
Values being kept back then (Liddel not running on Sabbath) |
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List of good that came from enlightenment: |
GOOD: science, medicine, literacy, inventions, exploration |
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List of bad from enlightenment: |
BAD: rejection of Christianity, bloody revolutions, New Dark Ages, Change of worldview |
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Who were the 3 philosophes? |
Rosseau Diderot David Hume |
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What year did the French revolution begin? |
1789 |
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Causes of the French revolution? |
financial crisis food shortage speculation of hoarding subversion of existing order (antimonarchy, antichurch) |
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Revolution of the ______, not the poor! |
philosophes |
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Three estates: |
1) the clergy 2) the Nobility 3) all others (merchants and professionals) |
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Bastille day? What happened? |
A national French holiday (July 15, 1789) The national guard took over the bastille |
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What did Lafayette have to do with Bastille day? |
Lafayette was the leader of the invasion/liberal aristocrat |
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Some acts of the 1st revolution were ________ the church. |
against |
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List 3 acts of revolution against the church: |
1) divorce was allowed 2) church schools shut down 3) state took over all church property |
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Year that France became a Monarchy |
1791 (Goal of the revolutionaries) |
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What was the goal of the revolutionaries? |
For France to become a monarchy |
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What was the slogan of the revolutionaries? |
Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite |
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Radicals wanted a ________. |
democracy |
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Who was Robespierre? |
Dominant figure of revolutionaries supported by sans culottes called for assault on all enemies of revolution headed Committee of Public Safety |
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Who were the Jacobins? |
leading club of radical philosophes and liberal aristocrats Hated the monarchy and wanted a republicwere not satisfied with achievements of previous 3 years |
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Who were the sans-culottes? |
Mobs of paris: composed of the poor who refused to wear upperclass breeches. These were manipulated by Jacobins in order to gain power |
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When was the monarchy abolished? |
1792 |
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Republic of Virtue |
"the sacrifice of oneself and one's interests for the good of the republic would replace selfish aristocratic and monarchial corruption -renaming streets -absence of powdered wigs |
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Committee of Public Safety |
Carried out executive duties of Govt Saw their task as saving revolution from mortal enemies at home and abroad Murder in the name of public safety 25,000-100,000 deaths |
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What happened in 1793-1794 |
The Reign of Terror Enemies of revolution were arrested and executed |
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Robespierre and ____ of his cohort were led to a ______. |
80, guillotine |
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Why did lofty ideas of revolutionaries fail? |
there was no organic tradition of democracy in France |
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American rev |
organic |
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Thermidorian reaction |
reaction to extreme excess of reign of terror (destruction of its machinery/establishment of new constitutional regime) |
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The Directory |
5 men elected from legislature to execute laws |
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What eventually happened to Jacobins and Sans Culottes? |
Banned from every day life |
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What was included in the new constitution? |
-rejection of absolute monarchy and democracy -2 branches instead of one (legislative) -a new executive body (THE DIRECTORY) |
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Who was the Great Hero of the revolutionary army? |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
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1797 coup d'etat |
the directory staged this |
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1799 coup d'etat |
established napoleon as First Consul |
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The French electorate.... |
ratified Napoleon's constitution |
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Napoleon was declared as _______ in 1804 |
Emperor of French |
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Govt of 1 Govt of FEW Govt of MANY |
Monarchy/Tyranny Aristocracy/Oligarchy Polity or Republic/Democracy |
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Main contributions of Napoleon: |
1) 3rd estate members and peasants had achieved their goals so the consulate was supported 2) Made peace with Catholic church 3) Napoleonic code: codified French law 4) supported property rights, Habeas corpus, trial by jury, freedom of speech and press |
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What 2 destructive forces did Nap. open the door to? |
Total War Nationalism |
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Per aristotle, what's the worst form of government? Why? |
Democracy 51% can tyrannize the 49% |
