Thursday, November 26, 2009

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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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