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    door. - Orde‚ discipline‚ soberheid en eenvoud. - uitdaging om in strakke richtlijnen goede literatuur te schrijven - namen genres over‚ imiteerden stijl en pasten theorieën uit oudheid toe. Optimistische levensvisie‚ later meer pessimisme: Molière‚ La Rouchefoucauld en Jean de la Fontaine negatief over de opportunistische mens. Jean Racine heel negatief‚ beschouwde mens als krachteloos slachtoffer van zijn driften. Theater: Toneel belangrijkste literaire genre in deze tijd. Ook hier

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    Western Humanities and Vietnam Western humanity is more or less a history of how we became democratic; starting with the Greeks who viewed communism as a threat to democracy. The Vietnam War was based on the beliefs that are taught in humanities: the worldwide struggle for spheres of influence‚ and each region wanting to have cultural‚ political‚ and ideological control over other regions. The United States’ commitment to stopping the spread of communism started in 1954 before the Vietnam War broke

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    Mr. Dunbar AP European History Chapter 17—The Age of Enlightenment: Eighteenth Century Thought Chapter Overview: The Enlightenment is a movement of people and ideas that fostered the expansion of literate sectors of European society and that economic improvement and political reform were both possible and desirable. Contemporary western political and economic thought is a product of Enlightenment thinking; therefore‚ some historians believe the process of Enlightenment continues today. Inspired

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    The French word “renaissance” is equivalent to “rebirth” in English. The time period named for this term was indeed a rebirth of the creativity and human spirit lost with the classical age. Most importantly‚ the Renaissance was a revival of an interest to learn. In many ways‚ it is the opposite of the preceding Middle Ages. Their world revolved around the Roman Catholic Church; belief in god dictated every aspect of life. On the contrary‚ the Renaissance was secular and emphasized the predominance

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    Scientific Revolution Aristotle and Claudius Ptolemy 16th century science was based on their conclusions Geocentric model: Earth is motion less other planets revolve around it Epicycles- Plotlemy’s idea circles within circles Crystalline spheres: heavens are made of a weightless substance allowing them to move Medieval thinkiners used Aristotle and Ptolemy ideology into a Christian framework Thomas Aquinas uses Unmoved Mover concept to confirm G-d’s existence Medieval thinkers believed their hypothesis

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    Zerbinette In the play “Les fourberies de Scapin” by Moliere a brilliant in tricks server named Scapin lies and plays the other characters against each other to help two young couples‚ his masters son and their neighbors son‚ convince their fathers to not break apart their engagements. One character I found entertaining is Zerbinette who is the young girl Leandre is engaged to. Zerbinette was kidnapped at the age of four and raised by gypsies living on the streets. At the end of the

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    Since day one of my school life‚ I’ve been conforming to society based on what everyone commented on. Comments from school mates such as “How do you not have a smartphone or a Facebook?” and “Only losers sleep at 10” slowly changed my attitude and my goals until I had the same habits and possessions as everyone around me. Comments from teachers and parents such as “ You’re just a number to colleges” and “You should get a job that pays well” also affected my attitude and interests towards school

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    2007) INTERNET SOURCES Hume‚ David. “The Reading Selection from Natural Religion” Philosophy Home Page. Web. 12 May 2013. <http://philosophy.lander.edu/intro/introbook2.1/x4211.html&gt;. “Voltaire.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 31 Aug. 2009. Web. 12 May 2013. <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/voltaire/&gt;. Roach‚ Jesse “Leibniz and the Problem of Evil” Retrieved May 3‚ 2013 http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl201/modules/Philosophers/Leibniz/leibniz.html 7|Page

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    Famous French Enlightenment writer and historian Voltaire was born Francois Marie Arouet into a Parisian middle class family in 1694. Voltaire was the youngest of five children to parents‚ François Arouet and Marie Marguerite d’Aumart. After his mother’s death at the age of seven; Voltaire’s father‚ a high-profile lawyer sent him to the infamous Paris boarding school Louis-le-grand. The school was run by Jesuit priests that lent him a background in early Greek and Latin‚ while also providing him

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    philosophes‚ Rousseau and Voltaire hated each other. In fact‚ it would be hard to ever envision the urbane and suave Voltaire and the radically democratic Rousseau ever seeing eye to eye on much: Voltaire believed that through education and reason man could separate himself from the beasts while Rousseau thought that it was precisely all this which made men "unnatural" and corrupted. As Betrand Russell put it so eloquently: "It is not surprising that Rousseau and Voltaire ultimately quarreled; the

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