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Exploring Intellectual Movements and Cultural Transformations: A Comprehensive Study of the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Modern Era

Examines cultural transformations from the Renaissance to modern intellectual movements.

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Exploring Intellectual Movements and Cultural Transformations: AComprehensive Study of the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Modern EraWhat Revolution helped bring about a new way of looking at the world in purely material terms?ScientificRevolutionWhat famous artist was not associated with the "Century of Genius"?da VinciWhat does the phrase "idols of the cave" refer to?Individual BiasesWhat does the phrase "idols of the marketplace" refer to?Ambiguities of LanguageDuring the modern age, the "new science" has developed from what to what?scientific inquiry to philosophy of life.What word refers to how we arrive at knowledge through experience?EmpiricismEuropean culture in the 17th century in Europe is best characterized by which phrase?Period of ConflictThe textbook suggest that which century is referred to as the "century of genius"?17th CenturyThe name Galileo is best associated with what period?1550-1770You try three oranges out of abag of ten and all three are sour. You conclude, therefore, that the rest of the oranges are also sour. You have just reasoned ___________.

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InductivelyBoth the European culture and the development of the American Culture were largely impacted by ____________.EnlightenmentAccording to the textbook, which Enlightenment figure had the greatest influence on how the institutions of modern western culture have developed?RoussaeuWhat did enlightenment philosophers believe mankind was capable of?Social PerfectionRousseau is best known for his theories on which three subjects?Education, Politics, SocietyWhat great writer, and somewhat of a philosopher, stated that God was a construct of human imagination made because we need amoral standard in society, and he is looked to and idolized by the secular world because he was sohostile to faith?VoltaireVoltaire's philosophy is expressed by his most famous quote, namely that..."If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him".What two terms both refer to the culture of the 18th century?"Age of Reason" and "Neoclassical Period"T/F: It was commonly believed by the 18th-century philosophers that tradition is the foundation of truth.FalseT/F: TheEnlightenment philosophers had a high regard for the truth of religion.FalseModern political liberalism shares its underlying view of man with the philosophy of who?Rousseau

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Who is not discussed in the text as an example of a "romantic hero"?Louis XIVT/F: In many ways, the modern environmental movement can be traced back to the romantic veneration of nature.TrueWordsworth's sonnet, "The World Is Too Much with Us," best illustrates which concept?Nature on the Romantic imaginationT/F: Romanticism in the arts can be described as a triumph of "reason" over "passion."FalseWhat event is most closely related to the Crystal Palace?The output of factoriesRealism in nineteenth-century art can be understood as a reaction to what movement?RomanticismWhat concept is presented in chapter 23 as an important background to the emphasis on "realism" and "materialism" in nineteenth-century culture?IndustrializationT/F: By the end of the nineteenth century,materialism and secularism had produced a widespread pessimism about the future of western culture.FalseWho is Jean-Francois Millet most closely associated with when it comes to realism in painting?Gustave CourbetWho is Charles Darwin most closely associated with when it comes to intellectual developments?Karl Marx
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