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: A
Comprehensive Study of the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Modern Era
What Revolution helped bring about a new way of looking at the world in purely material terms?
Scientific Revolution
What famous artist was not associated with the "Century of Genius"?
da Vinci
What does the phrase "idols of the cave" refer to?
Individual Biases
What does the phrase "idols of the marketplace" refer to?
Ambiguities of Language
During 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?
Empiricism
European culture in the 17th century in Europe is best characterized by which phrase?
Period of Conflict
The textbook suggest that which century is referred to as the "century of genius"?
17th Century
The name Galileo is best associated with what period?
1550-1770
You try three oranges out of a bag of ten and all three are sour. You conclude, therefore, that the rest of the oranges are also sour. You have just reasoned ___________.
Comprehensive Study of the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Modern Era
What Revolution helped bring about a new way of looking at the world in purely material terms?
Scientific Revolution
What famous artist was not associated with the "Century of Genius"?
da Vinci
What does the phrase "idols of the cave" refer to?
Individual Biases
What does the phrase "idols of the marketplace" refer to?
Ambiguities of Language
During 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?
Empiricism
European culture in the 17th century in Europe is best characterized by which phrase?
Period of Conflict
The textbook suggest that which century is referred to as the "century of genius"?
17th Century
The name Galileo is best associated with what period?
1550-1770
You try three oranges out of a bag of ten and all three are sour. You conclude, therefore, that the rest of the oranges are also sour. You have just reasoned ___________.
Inductively
Both the European culture and the development of the American Culture were largely impacted by ____________.
Enlightenment
According to the textbook, which Enlightenment figure had the greatest influence on how the institutions of modern western culture have developed?
Roussaeu
What did enlightenment philosophers believe mankind was capable of?
Social Perfection
Rousseau is best known for his theories on which three subjects?
Education, Politics, Society
What great writer, and somewhat of a philosopher, stated that God was a construct of human imagination made because we need a moral standard in society, and he is looked to and idolized by the secular world because he was so
hostile to faith?
Voltaire
Voltaire'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.
False
T/F: The Enlightenment philosophers had a high regard for the truth of religion.
False
Modern political liberalism shares its underlying view of man with the philosophy of who?
Rousseau
Both the European culture and the development of the American Culture were largely impacted by ____________.
Enlightenment
According to the textbook, which Enlightenment figure had the greatest influence on how the institutions of modern western culture have developed?
Roussaeu
What did enlightenment philosophers believe mankind was capable of?
Social Perfection
Rousseau is best known for his theories on which three subjects?
Education, Politics, Society
What great writer, and somewhat of a philosopher, stated that God was a construct of human imagination made because we need a moral standard in society, and he is looked to and idolized by the secular world because he was so
hostile to faith?
Voltaire
Voltaire'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.
False
T/F: The Enlightenment philosophers had a high regard for the truth of religion.
False
Modern political liberalism shares its underlying view of man with the philosophy of who?
Rousseau
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