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6 Ideals
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Ethos, Pathos, Logos
100
This is another name for the Age of Reason
What is the Age of Enlightenment
100
This is understanding God’s existence as divorced from holy books, divine providence, revealed religion, prophecy and miracles; instead basing religious belief on reason and observation of the natural world.
What is Deism
100
These are roughly the dates of the Age of Reason
What is 1750-1800
100
The man who wrote 'Letters from an American Farmer', including the excerpt that tries to define an American, was this nationality
What is French
100
This is an appeal to the reader's/viewer's emotions
What is Pathos
200
This is the ability to think in an ordered, logical manner that enabled people to discover both scientific and spiritual truth.
What is Reason
200
This is the notion that humans have natural rights and that government authority is not absolute, but based on the will and consent of the governed.
What is Liberalism
200
The thinking of this time period led directly to this event in America
What is the Revolutionary War
200
Ben Franklin, in order to become more morally perfect, came up with how many virtues to improve?
What is 13
200
This is an appeal to logic
What is Logos
300
This is the period that the Age of Reason was reacting against in America
What is Puritan
300
This is is a commitment to the notion that a nation ought to be ruled as a republic, in which selection of the state’s highest public official is determined by a general election, rather than through a claim to hereditary right. These values include civic patriotism, virtuous citizenship and property-based personality.
What is Republicanism
300
The thinking of this time period led directly to this event in France
What is the French Revolution
300
In the Declaration of Independence, this section lists every reason the colonists had to hate King George III
What is the list of Grievances
300
This is an appeal to the speaker's credibility or experience
What is Ethos
400
the belief that human beings can arrive at truth by using reason, rather than by relying on the authority of the past, on religious faith, or intuition.
What is Rationalism
400
These people believed that human personality was the product of living in a political society, not a set of natural rights that predetermined our social and political relations and attacked the notion of a social contract (prominent in the work of Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau) as a mythical construction
What is Conservativism
400
These two documents were created based off the thinking during this time period
What are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
400
Complete this sentence: 'We hold these truths to be self evident, . . . '
What is ". . . that all men are created equal."
400
What is this an example of: He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
What is Pathos
500
This is the belief that God had made it possible for all people at all times to discover natural laws through their God-given power of reason.
What is Deism
500
This is the belief that hatred or fear of other races and creeds interfered with economic trade, extinguished freedom of thought and expression, eroded the basis for friendship among nations and led to persecution and war.
What is Toleration
500
This person created a new Bible, omitting any references to miracles, based on the thinking of this time period
Who is Thomas Jefferson
500
What two-word phrase does de Crevecoeur use to describe women and children in the New World as opposed to in Europe?
What is "fat and frolicsome"
500
The following is a syllogism, which is an example of what?All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore Socrates is mortal.
What is Logos