Enlightenment/Neoclassical Period (1600s-1750s) Intellectual Awakening

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Enlightenment/Neoclassical Period (1600s-1750s) Intellectual Awakening Francois Marius Granet- Ingres Reason Intellect Knowledge Order History held in high regard- (Greek & Roman) Scientists, Philosophers, Writers, & Inventors Issac Newton (laws of motion) John Locke Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Franklin Patrick Henry (Greek reference) Portrait of Alphonse Leroy- Jacques Louis David

Enlightenment/ Neoclassical Period The Oath of Horatii- David Enlightenment/ Neoclassical Period Death of Socrates- David Experience Truth- study the past Balance Order Restraint of emotion

Enlightenment/ Neoclassical Period Life, Liberty, and Property (John Locke) Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Jefferson) Founding Fathers- Deism (clockmaker) Government Architecture Both Greek & Roman (domes, columns, and democracy)

Enlightenment/ Neoclassical Pendulum Swing Enlightenment/ Neoclassical Romanticism Almost complete opposite philosophy

Dualists- reality subsists in both thought and matter What do you know to be true and how do you prove it? Epistemology- study of knowledge; where it comes from, its limitations, and how it is acquired Enlightenment A posteriori Only knowable with experience (dependent) Materialists- reality subsists in matter Romanticism A priori Knowable without experience (independent) Idealists- reality subsists in thought Dualists- reality subsists in both thought and matter

Romanticism (1750s-late 1800s) Individual Personal Concentration on the genius, hero, artist Senses over intellect; Emotions over reason Imaginative & Creative Sentimental Wanderer- Friedrich

Romanticism Beauty of Nature Experience of spiritual truth Inspiration The Solitary Tree, Friedrich Beauty of Nature Experience of spiritual truth Inspiration Visionary Mysterious Spontaneous Folk culture Exotic origins Couple gazing at the moon- Friedrich George Caleb Bingham Fur Traders Decending the Missouri, 1845

Romanticism-Two Sides Transcendentalism Simple life Close relationship to nature Self-reliance and individualism Inherent goodness of people Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau American Gothic People not always good Human capacity for evil Explored human psychology & motivation Edgar Allen Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne Kindred Spirits- Asher B. Durand The Visage of War- Salvador Dali