Ch. 17 Enlightenment Test Study Guide
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Enlightenment features – secularism p. 514
Fontenelle ‘s skepticism p. 514
John Locke’s “blank slate” p. 516
Philosophes’ belief in reason and rationality with the goal of changing society
p. 516
5. Natural laws govern society, p. 516
6. Class position of philosophes, p. 516
7. Montesquieu’s idea of a political system without nobility, p. 517-518
8. Physiocrats’ natural economic laws, p. 521
9. Voltaire’s thought, p. 519
10. Woman philosophe, p. 519
11. Deism, p. 519
12. Diderot’s Encyclopedia’s aim, p. 520
13. Adam Smith’s view of government, p. 522
14. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, p. 523
15. Montesquieu’s Persian Letters aim, p. 517
16. Rousseau and “general will” , p. 523
17. Rousseau view of crime and private property, p. 522-23
18. Rousseau’s Emile – education and childrearing, p. 523
19. Salons, p. 526
20. Mary Wollstonecraft’s women’s rights, p. 524
21. Rococo and Neumann, p.527
22. Watteau “Return from Cythera” (Remember that Weber’s “The
Enlightenment” commented extensively on this painting) , p 527
23. Bach, p. 528
24. Haydn, Mozart, p. 529
25. Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro” innovation, p. 529
26. Novel’s purpose, p. 529-530
27. Mary Astell, p. 524
28. Rococo portrayal of aristocratic life and Watteau, p. 527
29. Publishing and high culture, p. 532
30. Handel’s Messiah, p. 529
31. Beccaria, p. 533
32. Legal system changes; crime and punishment p. 533
33. Carnival/Lent, p. 534
34. Role of churches in social/spiritual life, p. 536
35. Jewish life/enterprise, p. 537-38
36. Methodism, p. 539
37. Reaction to rationalism/deism, p. 538
38. Women’s work changes, p. 561
Essay Question: Discuss women’s role during the Enlightenment. Include E.P.
Thompson’s as well as Elizabeth Fox-Genovese’s analysis. Be sure to include
specific references to Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Astell, Rousseau, the salons and
working class women.