Exam 17: the Eighteenth Century: an Age of Enlightenment

The eighteenth century English historian, Edward Gibbon, blamed the downfall of ancient Rome on the pagan religion practices and sexual excesses of the Roman Empire.

"Pietism" refers to an emphasis on the mystical experience of God as a conduit of faith.

To what extent did "high culture" and "popular culture" influence one another?

Denying Descartes' belief in innate ideas, John Locke argued that every person was born with

IDENTIFICATIONS -Johann Sebastian Bach

The scientist-philosopher who provides a link between the scientists of the 17th century and the philosophes of the next was

IDENTIFICATIONS -James Cook's Travels

IDENTIFICATIONS -Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations

A key new type of enlightened writing fueling skepticism about the "truths" of Christianity and European society was

High culture in eighteenth-century Europe was characterized by the

The religious denomination founded by John Wesley in England to provide a more emotionally fulfilling religious alternative to the Church of England was

In her Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft argued that since women had been unfairly subjected to males for so many millennia, women should temporarily be given special legal rights and privileges in excess of those of males in compensation of their long servitude.

IDENTIFICATIONS -Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Adam Smith was a mercantilist disguised as a proto-capitalist.

IDENTIFICATIONS -American Philosophical Society

IDENTIFICATIONS -newspapers and libraries

An early female philosophe who published a translation of Newton's Principia and who was the mistress of Voltaire was

Carnival was celebrated in the weeks leading up to

IDENTIFICATIONS -Balthasar Neumann

IDENTIFICATIONS -Emile