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What Revolution helped bring about a new way of looking at the world in purely material terms?

Scientific Revolution

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What famous artist was not associated with the "Century of Genius"?

da Vinci

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What does the phrase "idols of the cave" refer to?

Individual Biases

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What does the phrase "idols of the marketplace" refer to?

Ambiguities of Language

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During the modern age, the "new science" has developed from what to what?

scientific inquiry to philosophy of life.

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What word refers to how we arrive at knowledge through experience?

Empiricism

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European culture in the 17th century in Europe is best characterized by which phrase?

Period of Conflict

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The textbook suggest that which century is referred to as the "century of genius"?

17th Century

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The name Galileo is best associated with what period?

1550-1770

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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

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Both the European culture and the development of the American Culture were largely impacted by ____________.

Enlightenment

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According to the textbook, which Enlightenment figure had the greatest influence on how the institutions of modern western culture have developed?

Roussaeu

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What did enlightenment philosophers believe mankind was capable of?

Social Perfection

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Rousseau is best known for his theories on which three subjects?

Education, Politics, Society

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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

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Voltaire's philosophy is expressed by his most famous quote, namely that...

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him".

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What two terms both refer to the culture of the 18th century?

"Age of Reason" and "Neoclassical Period"

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T/F: It was commonly believed by the 18th-century philosophers that tradition is the foundation of truth.

False

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T/F: The Enlightenment philosophers had a high regard for the truth of religion.

False

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Modern political liberalism shares its underlying view of man with the philosophy of who?

Rousseau

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Who is not discussed in the text as an example of a "romantic hero"?

Louis XIV

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T/F: In many ways, the modern environmental movement can be traced back to the romantic veneration of nature.

True

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Wordsworth's sonnet, "The World Is Too Much with Us," best illustrates which concept?

Nature on the Romantic imagination

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T/F: Romanticism in the arts can be described as a triumph of "reason" over "passion."

False

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What event is most closely related to the Crystal Palace?

The output of factories

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Realism in nineteenth-century art can be understood as a reaction to what movement?

Romanticism

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What concept is presented in chapter 23 as an important background to the emphasis on "realism" and "materialism" in nineteenth-century culture?

Industrialization

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T/F: By the end of the nineteenth century, materialism and secularism had produced a widespread pessimism about the future of western culture.

False

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Who is Jean-Francois Millet most closely associated with when it comes to realism in painting?

Gustave Courbet

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Who is Charles Darwin most closely associated with when it comes to intellectual developments?

Karl Marx

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Who is Leo Tolstoy most closely associated with when it comes to skepticism?

Matthew Arnold

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Who is Gustave Flaubert most closely associated with when it comes to realistic writing?