What are the characteristic ideas of the Enlightenment?
neoclassical art, natural philosophy, social thought
Details: In 5 pages (each question has to have at least a page) please answer these 3 questions. MLA format. Please do not use any outside sources, besides the ones given. (already emailed all sources to Eunice).
1. What are the characteristic ideas of the Enlightenment? In what ways can Rousseau be considered both an Enlightenment and an anti-Enlightenment thinker?
2. To what degree should we see Isaac Newton’s Principia as an example of the new mechanical philosophy? Compare Newton’s celestial mechanics with Descartes. Whose is the most mechanical philosophy? Whose is the most mathematical?
3. Who painted “Oath of the Hortii?” Describe the ways in which it is representative of neoclassical art. How does the painting use an episode from history to illustrate how the French people should respond to the economic and political crises facing the French state in the 1780s?
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