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He was known as the "Father of Classical Liberalism?"
Who is John Locke?
100
This type of artistic style emphasized grace and gentle action.
What is Rococo?
100
These were the two types of religion in the Enlightenment.
What is Institutional religion and popular religion.
100
This book was by Bernard de Fontenelle, which was about a lady aristocrat talking with her lover under the stars, and teaches the lady basic fundamentals of the new mechanistic universe.
What is "Plurality of Worlds?"
100
This word means a doubtful or questioning attitude, and was applied especially to religion.
What is skepticism?
200
This person was the French noble that wrote the "Persian Letters."
Who is Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu?
200
This type of artistic style wanted to recapture the dignity and simplicity of the classical styles of ancient Greece and Rome.
What is Neoclassicism?
200
This type of religion required some religious toleration due to its ties with politics.
What is Institutional religion?
200
This book is by Pierre Bayle, and it portrays the Israelite King David as evil, which David was meant to be a kind ruler. This was meant to create arguments from the Bible, to create new rational principles of textual criticism.
What is "Historical and Critical Dictionary?"
200
These were intellectuals of the Enlightenment who believed in applying a spirit of rational criticism to everything, including religion and politics. They also focussed on improving and enjoying this world, instead of focussing on the afterlife.
What is philosophes?
300
This man wrote the "Philosophic Letters of the English."
Who is Francois-Marie Arouet, or Voltaire.
300
This author was popular during the French Revolution because of his writings about honor and patriotism.
Who is Jacques-Louis David?
300
These people were the most despised religious minority in Europe.
What is the Jews?
300
This text by Denis Diderot maintains the ideas that Africans were black and characterized as Negro, and considered a new species of mankind.
What is "Encyclopedia?"
300
This word means the belief in God as the creator of the universe, but then ceased to have much involvement afterward.
What is deism?
400
This man believed that Christianity was fanatical and unreasonable. He wrote "Encyclopedia."
Who is Denis Diderot.
400
The excavation of of the two Roman cities influenced Neoclassical artists.
What are Herculaneum and Pompeii?
400
This word means organized looting and massacres of the Jews.
What are pogroms?
400
John Locke's book about tabula rasa, or blank mind, which denied the ideas of Descartes's innate ideas.
What is "Essay Concerning Human Understanding?"
400
These were places where groups of philosophes, and other guests, would meet to discuss ideas of the Enlightenment.
What is salons?
500
This man was the Scottish philosopher that attacked mercantilism. He condemned mercantilist use of tariffs to protect home industries.
Who is Adam Smith?
500
This man's work has Rococo's appeal in his work, which focussed on the aristocratic life.
Who is Antoine Watteau.
500
He was an ordained Anglican minister who experienced a deep spiritual crisis, and supposedly underwent a mystical experience.
Who was John Wesley?
500
Charles de Secondat wrote this book to compare the different types of governments, republics, monarchy, and despotism.
What is "The Spirit of the Laws?"
500
This was a movement whose objective was to foster a personal experience of God as the focus of a true religious experience.
What is Pietism?