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1. What Revolution helped bring about a new way of looking at the world in purely material terms?
2. What famous artist was not associated with the "Century of Genius"?
3. What does the phrase "idols of the cave" refer to?
4. What does the phrase "idols of the marketplace" refer to?
5. During the modern age, the "new science" has developed from what to what?
6. What word refers to how we arrive at knowledge through experience?
7. European culture in the 17th century in Europe is best characterized by which phrase?
8. The textbook suggest that which century is referred to as the "century of genius"?
9. The name Galileo is best associated with what period?
10. 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 ___________.
11. Both the European culture and the development of the American Culture were largely impacted by ____________.
12. According to the textbook, which Enlightenment figure had the greatest influence on how the institutions of modern western culture have developed?
13. What did enlightenment philosophers believe mankind was capable of?
14. Rousseau is best known for his theories on which three subjects?
15. 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?
16. Voltaire's philosophy is expressed by his most famous quote, namely that...
17. What two terms both refer to the culture of the 18th century?
18. T/F: It was commonly believed by the 18th-century philosophers that tradition is the foundation of truth.
19. T/F: The Enlightenment philosophers had a high regard for the truth of religion.
20. Modern political liberalism shares its underlying view of man with the philosophy of who?
21. Who is not discussed in the text as an example of a "romantic hero"?
22. T/F: In many ways, the modern environmental movement can be traced back to the romantic veneration of nature.
23. Wordsworth's sonnet, "The World Is Too Much with Us," best illustrates which concept?
24. T/F: Romanticism in the arts can be described as a triumph of "reason" over "passion."
25. What event is most closely related to the Crystal Palace?
26. Realism in nineteenth-century art can be understood as a reaction to what movement?
27. What concept is presented in chapter 23 as an important background to the emphasis on "realism" and "materialism" in nineteenth-century culture?
28. T/F: By the end of the nineteenth century, materialism and secularism had produced a widespread pessimism about the future of western culture.
29. Who is Jean-Francois Millet most closely associated with when it comes to realism in painting?
30. Who is Charles Darwin most closely associated with when it comes to intellectual developments?
31. Who is Leo Tolstoy most closely associated with when it comes to skepticism?
32. Who is Gustave Flaubert most closely associated with when it comes to realistic writing?