WGU C100 SET QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE
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- ✔✔Denis Diderot - ✔✔This Enlightenment Philosopher helped create the greatest
encyclopedia in the 18th century. He wrote philosophical dialogues that explored the
theory and consequence of materialism: the idea that the universe is entirely composed
of matter and without a God.
✔✔Encyclopédie - ✔✔represented a fundamental principle of the Enlightenment: to
accumulate, codify, and preserve human knowledge by providing rational information on
important topics to the general public.
✔✔John Locke - ✔✔This Enlightenment Philosopher was one of the most influential
philosophers and political theorists in British history. Many current ideas about selfhood,
identity, and the way the mind works come from Locke. Locke also wrote highly
influential books on government, providing a basis for the American political experiment
✔✔Mary Wollstonecraft - ✔✔This Enlightenment Philosopher was an English writer,
philosopher, and feminist who argued for the advancement of women, affirming that
women were capable of rationality and that they should be educated.
✔✔Enlightenment Literature - ✔✔Created the Novel, focused on rational prose and
social reform. Made biographies, essays, and travel narratives popular. The Printing
Press made literature available to all social statuses.
✔✔Jonathan Swift - ✔✔Renaissance author whose narrative Gulliver's Travels uses
satire to critique human nature and overreliance on reason and to support Classical
knowledge over modern.
✔✔Voltaire - ✔✔Renaissance author whose novel Candide uses satire to criticize
outmoded social and religious institutions
, ✔✔Neoclassical Theater - ✔✔Playwrights on classical myths, Featured: "the comedy of
manners.", Female actors were used.
✔✔Molière - ✔✔In his comedy "Tartuffe", this neoclassical playwright uses satire to
critique false religious piety and to highlight the contrasts between irrationality and
reason.
✔✔Neoclassical Art & Architecture - ✔✔Neoclassicism was an 18th century art and
architecture movement that looked to Greek and Roman art for models of harmony,
idealized realism, and reason. It shunned the ostentatious elements of the Baroque and
Rococo styles and promoted the themes of order, progress, and civic virtue.
✔✔Jacques-Louis David - ✔✔neoclassical artist who painted scenes that emphasized
civic virtue and civic morality;
✔✔Angelica Kauffmann - ✔✔Neoclassical artists who was one of the most popular
portraitists of her time;
✔✔John Singleton Copley - ✔✔Neoclassical artist who created portraits and history
paintings;
✔✔Neoclassical architecture - ✔✔Examples of this periods architecture include the
Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, the Panthéon in Paris, and Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's
home in Virginia.
✔✔Neoclassical Music - ✔✔The classical music genre refers to European music that
was composed from approximately 1730 to 1820. The music of this period embraced
the Enlightenment focus on balance, order, and structural clarity. Composers
heightened the contrast between musical lines and enjoyed a greater depth and variety
in orchestral texture.
✔✔Mozart - ✔✔The most celebrated composer of this neoclassical era. He composed
sonatas, symphonies, masses, concertos, and operas. Some of his most well-known
works are Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Symphony No. 40 in G minor, and the opera Le
Nozze De Figaro ("The Marriage of Figaro").
✔✔Joseph Haydn - ✔✔This neoclassical composser was another prominent classical
composer with such works as Symphony No. 101 ("The Clock Symphony").
✔✔Enlightenment Cultural Exchange - ✔✔Many Enlightenment thinkers rejected the
tradition of slavery, looking to reason and individualized thought.
Slave narratives were published during this time, enriching the philosophies with a new
viewpoint and experience.
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- ✔✔Denis Diderot - ✔✔This Enlightenment Philosopher helped create the greatest
encyclopedia in the 18th century. He wrote philosophical dialogues that explored the
theory and consequence of materialism: the idea that the universe is entirely composed
of matter and without a God.
✔✔Encyclopédie - ✔✔represented a fundamental principle of the Enlightenment: to
accumulate, codify, and preserve human knowledge by providing rational information on
important topics to the general public.
✔✔John Locke - ✔✔This Enlightenment Philosopher was one of the most influential
philosophers and political theorists in British history. Many current ideas about selfhood,
identity, and the way the mind works come from Locke. Locke also wrote highly
influential books on government, providing a basis for the American political experiment
✔✔Mary Wollstonecraft - ✔✔This Enlightenment Philosopher was an English writer,
philosopher, and feminist who argued for the advancement of women, affirming that
women were capable of rationality and that they should be educated.
✔✔Enlightenment Literature - ✔✔Created the Novel, focused on rational prose and
social reform. Made biographies, essays, and travel narratives popular. The Printing
Press made literature available to all social statuses.
✔✔Jonathan Swift - ✔✔Renaissance author whose narrative Gulliver's Travels uses
satire to critique human nature and overreliance on reason and to support Classical
knowledge over modern.
✔✔Voltaire - ✔✔Renaissance author whose novel Candide uses satire to criticize
outmoded social and religious institutions
, ✔✔Neoclassical Theater - ✔✔Playwrights on classical myths, Featured: "the comedy of
manners.", Female actors were used.
✔✔Molière - ✔✔In his comedy "Tartuffe", this neoclassical playwright uses satire to
critique false religious piety and to highlight the contrasts between irrationality and
reason.
✔✔Neoclassical Art & Architecture - ✔✔Neoclassicism was an 18th century art and
architecture movement that looked to Greek and Roman art for models of harmony,
idealized realism, and reason. It shunned the ostentatious elements of the Baroque and
Rococo styles and promoted the themes of order, progress, and civic virtue.
✔✔Jacques-Louis David - ✔✔neoclassical artist who painted scenes that emphasized
civic virtue and civic morality;
✔✔Angelica Kauffmann - ✔✔Neoclassical artists who was one of the most popular
portraitists of her time;
✔✔John Singleton Copley - ✔✔Neoclassical artist who created portraits and history
paintings;
✔✔Neoclassical architecture - ✔✔Examples of this periods architecture include the
Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, the Panthéon in Paris, and Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's
home in Virginia.
✔✔Neoclassical Music - ✔✔The classical music genre refers to European music that
was composed from approximately 1730 to 1820. The music of this period embraced
the Enlightenment focus on balance, order, and structural clarity. Composers
heightened the contrast between musical lines and enjoyed a greater depth and variety
in orchestral texture.
✔✔Mozart - ✔✔The most celebrated composer of this neoclassical era. He composed
sonatas, symphonies, masses, concertos, and operas. Some of his most well-known
works are Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Symphony No. 40 in G minor, and the opera Le
Nozze De Figaro ("The Marriage of Figaro").
✔✔Joseph Haydn - ✔✔This neoclassical composser was another prominent classical
composer with such works as Symphony No. 101 ("The Clock Symphony").
✔✔Enlightenment Cultural Exchange - ✔✔Many Enlightenment thinkers rejected the
tradition of slavery, looking to reason and individualized thought.
Slave narratives were published during this time, enriching the philosophies with a new
viewpoint and experience.
