Essay Summary of Enlightenment in Europe & the Americas – Flashcards
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Literacy in the Enlightenment was concentrated in what social strata?
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upper class
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The topic of children is largely absent from Enlightenment writing, why?
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children were not understood to possess reason
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What was "the Great Chain of Being" as Enlightenment thinkers understood it?
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a hierarchy that put everything in its place
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Enlightenment philosophers & writers, regardless of their belief in tradition or progress, tended to value what?
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reason
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The Enlightenment's emphasis on individual reason as a ruling principle led to increasing belief in the divine right of kings. (TRUE or FALSE)
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FALSE
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As part of the Enlightenment belief in the constancy, or universality, of natural laws, God was often imagined as what?
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a watchmaker
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What did the Enlightenment ideal of decorum suggest?
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literary subjects must be fitted to their appropriate genre
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Enlightenment authors put great emphasis on "realism" in their work. (TRUE or FALSE)
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FALSE
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The Enlightenment was a time of great tension between the two ideals of what?
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tradition & progress
