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The Arts
Writers , artists, and architects focused on Greek and Roman classics
Used simple forms (instead of elaborate baroque style)
Writers focused on the classical ideas, but were also loyal to the idea of “reason”.
Music: religious --> created for enjoyment and pleasure.
Other Views
Some opposed the views of the Enlightenment
William Blake “God is not a mathematical diagram!”
Jean Jacques Rousseau: 1700’s French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau à people should rely more on instinct and emotion.
Convinced that people were born “good” but civilization corrupted them. (Discourse on the Effect of the Arts and Sciences on Morals.)
Believed power to rule belonged to the people & people had the right to rise up vs. govt’.
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher influenced by Rousseau
Reason cannot explain metaphysics (ie: aspects of philosophy that deal with the universal, spiritual, and eternal questions). Wrote Critique of Pure Reason
Divided the world into two realms: ultimate reality and physical nature.
Physical world: People attained knowledge through the five senses as well as through reason.
Second realm: faith, intuition and conviction help attain knowledge.
Religious Movement
Many rejected Deism “religion of reason”
Moravian Brethren and Hasidism àmystical based religions
John Wesley created “Methodism” à stressed value of personal religious experience.
Pg. 482 in your textbooks
Homework: Please complete the following questions:
#’s 1-4; 6 & 7
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