Art and Beauty
As discussed by Professor Johnson, the first African American women to be published in the United States.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
True or False: The lecture stated that the majority of influential scientists during the Scientific Revolution period opposed Christianity.
What is "false?"
True or false: Freud saw religion as something that could be understood rationally.
What is "false?"
The colonists asserted their rejection of British rule with this document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The creator of a deadly monster in Mary Shelley's novel.
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
Professor Johnson described this as the conditions in which art is produced or interpreted.
What is context?
The lecture video cautions that this term implies that Christianity had to be overthrown in order to usher in scientific progress.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
In order to apply science to every aspect of life you must assume that everything is __________.
What is natural and material?
Finish this phrase from the Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident..."
"...that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
The style of the novel Frankenstein.
What is gothic?
Name three of the nine aspects of beauty discussed by your professor.
What are Evokes wonder and delight, Often contains a Pre-cognitive striking force, True to its nature or form, Simplicity, Harmony, Proportion, Radiance, Symmetry, Purity (any three).
A "secular" view would argue that the Presocratics are to Greek mythology as Science is to __________.
What is Christianity?
Freud saw this as a coping mechanism brought about for humans through evolution.
What is religion?
In reference to Frankenstein, Dr. Spivey argues that people are a combination of...
What are human and monster?
The first person to die in Frankenstein.
Who is William Frankenstein?
In her lecture video, Professor Johnson described this as the arrangement of the elements in a work of art.
What is composition?
Aristotle used this analogy to demonstrate his view that the world was round.
What is the way in which ships disappeared on the horizon?
The lecture video refers to the fallacy of setting up a weak or twisted version of your opponents argument to defeat, rather than his strongest.
What is a Straw Man fallacy?
The main combatants in the Seven Years' War.
Who are the French and British?
The person convicted of killing William, and who actually killed him.
Who are Justine and the Monster?
The approximate dates/timeframe of the Colonial period
What is 1607-1776 (or Jamestown through the American Revolution)?
The lecture video referenced these people as influential in development of the modern narrative that
Christianity has and always will conflict with the scientific enterprise.
Who are John William Draper and Andrew Dickson White?
According to the lecture, after its acceptance as a biological theory of development, this belief was applied to other areas of human development.
What is Darwinian evolution?
Finish the Declaration of Independence from "And for the support of this Declaration..."
What is "...with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
The character who said “I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”
Who is the Monster?