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    The Encyclopédie exposed the Enlightenment knowledge to other countries around the world. As the Enlightenment developed into the mid 1700‚ an obvious shift occurred away from the reason-based philosophies of most of the leading English and French thinkers. The

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    Many years ago‚ a wife was expected to be submissive to her husband‚ never to question him and do as he says because he is the one who is in charge of making all of the decisions for the family. The wife’s role is to take care of the home and children. This role is that of an antiquated view of a wife. This is completely contradictory in comparison to what I understand in the poem 164 by Sor Juana Inés De la Cruz

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    During the Eighteenth Century‚ Diderot was a highly intelligent man‚ especially when it came to his work on Encyclopedie or any of his works. This work of his was a powerful weapon that always revealed the truth and nothing but the truth. He always expressed his ideas of the Enlightenment‚ so that people would ponder and join him in the struggle for social and political change. In my analysis of his two works “To Adore” and “The Slave Trade” which I will compare and contrast these topics and how

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    sexual or exrotic. Neoclasicism- Deism- worship a supreme being a god who created the universe and set the laws of nature in motion but who never again interfered in natural or human affairs. Pietism- Philosophes- leaders of enlightenment. Encyclopedie- First great awakening- Phillip Spener- Jonathan Edwards- Mozart- Departure from Cythera- 1717 oil on canvas Oath of the Horatii- 1785 Ch17 Revolutions Capitalism/laissez-faire- rule by the people and government keeps out

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    Enlightened absolutism was not a contemporary term to the European rulers it now describes. Consequently‚ interpretations of enlightened absolutists vary and are dependent on the time of analysis. The term was developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and since then its interpretation has evolved. The idea of enlightened absolutism‚ however‚ was observed and the principles were familiar in the second half of the eighteenth century among certain rulers. At first‚ the term was only applied

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    groups of musicians. (B) too short to display any significant musical form. (C) the only Baroque Era form that continued to be used in the Classical Era. (D) the crowning achievement of Viennese Classical music. 7. In the great "Encyclopédie" of 1765‚ Jean-Jacques Rousseau contributed articles on? Answer-A (A) music and politics. (B) music and art. (C) singing and stringed instruments. (D) opera and haute cuisine. 8. The first European hall designed exclusively

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    political order. Published in 1762‚ it became one of the most influential works of political philosophy in the Western tradition. It developed some of the ideas mentioned in an earlier work‚ the article Economie Politique‚ featured in Diderot’s Encyclopédie. The treatise begins with the dramatic opening lines‚ "Man is born free‚ and everywhere he is in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others‚ but remains more of a slave than they." Rousseau claimed that the state of nature was a

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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva‚ Switzerland on June 28‚ 1712 (Jean-Jacques Rousseau). Rousseau was raised by his father‚ a watchmaker after his mother died a few days after giving birth to him. Though Rousseau did not receive standardized education‚ he was still exposed to literature and history as well as learning how to read by his father who taught him the Calvinist faith‚ a major branch of Protestant that followed the religious customs and methods of the Christian practice of John Calvin

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    prominence. The Romantics argued that the Enlightenment was reductionistic insofar as it had largely ignored the forces of imagination‚ mystery‚ and sentiment.[4] In France‚ Enlightenment was based in the salons and culminated in the great Encyclopédie (1751–72) edited by Denis Diderot (1713–1784) and (until 1759) Jean le Rond d’Alembert (1717–1783) with

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    Literary life in England flourishes so impressively in the early years of the 18th century that contemporaries draw parallels with the heyday of Virgil‚ Horace and Ovid at the time of the emperor Augustus. The new Augustan Age becomes identified with the reign of Queen Anne (1702-14)‚ though the spirit of the age extends well beyond her death. The oldest of the Augustan authors‚ Jonathan Swift‚ first makes his mark in 1704 with The Battle of the Books and A Tale of a Tub. These two tracts‚ respectively

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