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46 Cards in this Set
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Peace of Westphalia
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1648
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The Glorious Revolution
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1688-89
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Beginning of the French Revolution
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1789
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Copernicus
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1473-1543
The Heliocentric model-the sun is at the center. |
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Kepler
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1571-1630
Laws of planetary motion |
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Galileo
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1564-1642
Defends Copernicus' model-heliocentric |
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Newton
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1642-1727
Discovered gravity invented calculus Newton's Laws |
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Natural Law
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a principle, discoverable by reason, which controls (and explains) regularity in nature
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Satire
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writing that blames certain elements of society. Candide
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cuius regio eius religio
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"Who's region, his religion." After 30 years war, Ruler of a particular place will dictate a specific area
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Thirty Years War
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1648-
Killed 15-30 % of the German population War with the Calvinists, Lutherans, Catholics... over territory. Ended because everyone was just getting tired of it. |
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skepticism
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philosophical thinking- a denial or doubt that genuine knowledge and certainty is possible.
Descartes. Find out what you're absolutely certain of.-all I know is that I exist |
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rationalism
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Reason is source of knowledge.
Descartes!- sit by yourself and think |
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Empiricism
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Knowledge through observation and grounded in sense experience.
NO REASON! |
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tabula rasa
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the mind is a "blank slate"
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innate ideas
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Ideas that you're born with. Opposite of tabula rasa
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John Locke
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tabula rasa. An empiricist. We gain everything from EXPERIENCE
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Deism
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rational religion/natural religion. "religious doubt." Nature funcitons according to principles. God creates and then steps back. He is a watch maker
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Pietism
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Emphasizes conversion and personal holiness. Bible study.
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Pascal
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A Roman Catholic pietist. A french genius, religious thinker (reacting to Dietists)
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Spencer
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Christianity of the heart. BIBLE STUDIES!!
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Wesley
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Free will rather than predestination
Salvation=regeneration & justification Sanctificaiton=being PERFECTED in love |
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Baroque
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SINGLE emotion throughout.
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Oratorio
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sacred, dramatic plot that is sung throughout but unstaged.
i.e. Handel's Messiah |
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Fugue
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A melody is stated in one part alone, then another part enters with the same melody, then another...
Bach perfected this form. |
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Bach
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1685-1750: perfected the fugue
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Handel
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1685-1759: Composed many operas and oratorios. Very dramatic style.
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Glorious Revolution
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1688. In England. No bloodshed. Resoled thorugh rights of lower classes, who got more power.
Burke likes it! Back to what the monarchy should be. |
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Social Contract
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An abstract theory use to explain and justify legitimate political authority, originating in Enlightenment thought.
Abandon original, pre-political "state of nature" |
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Philosophes
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a loose designation for French Enlightenment intellectuals
-critique of religion and traditional political authority, confidence in reason. i.e. Voltaire, Rousseau, Pain |
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Historic Constitutionalism
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Political philosophy of Burke.
-political relations are rooted in human nature. Society is essential to an individual's true development -the origins of politics are shrouded in mystery |
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National Assembly
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Combined elements of the Estates-General (Clergy, Nobility, Commons), which formed in June 1789 and ruled during the first phase of the French Revolution
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Reign of Terror/Robespierre
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1793-1794After the king and queen were killed, no one was in charge, everyone was getting their heards cut off.
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Rococo
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reaction against grand art. Pastel colors, dainty figures. Early 1700s.
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Neoclassicism
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18th century. Reestablishment of Greek and Roman art. IDealized figures.
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Romanticism
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1830
Emphasizes emotions. Nature & experience. Not very serious. Uses strong colors, dramatic light and dark |
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Mozart
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1756-1791. Classical
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Haydn
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1732-1809. Classical
Period of musical enlightment. Laows adapted to musical language. Reason. Not one mood thorughout the piece |
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Beethoven
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1770-1827
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Sonata Form: exposition
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two elements,creating conflict are stated
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Sonata Form: Development
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conflict occurs
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Sonata Form: Recapitulation
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Resolution of conflict occurs
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Classical Music
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1730-1800s. Period of musical enlightenment.
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Evangelicalism
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1730--?
Biblicalism Conversionism Activism Crucicentrism |
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Enlightenment
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1640-1800.
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Modernity
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symptom and cause of the enlightment. privileging of the recent, contemporary or future acquisition of knowledge over traditional bodies of knowledge.
emphasize what you know. |
