Philosophical+Movements


 * Philosophical Movement Answers:**

1. The time period from the beginnings to the 1750s was a time of change in where different views were explored and discovered. All of the world, not only America experienced a rejuvenation of the mind. The mood throughout this time period was intellectual and sophisticated. The world, in a sense, was becoming modernized. Modernized in a way in which people were beginning to explore different ideas and thinking for their own. Asking questions instead of just accepting what they were told. People no longer believed anything that they were told due to religion, they were becoming more open minded.

//2.// The [|Renaissance] was an important philosophical movement that took place (throughout different countries) during the 14th and 16th centuries. It was known as rebirth because it introduced the idea that living and enjoying life in the present day was important. An explosion of knowledge took place when printing was introduced to the world. A change in art, poetry and architecture changed the style and way of life dramatically, sometimes even referred to as the modernization of Europe. The Renaissance is known as the "rebirth of the European culture." It is said that when Giorgi Vasari published his artistic book //Vite// in 1550 the renaissance was introduced. The reformation was a philosophical movement that affected and led to the Renaissance. The [|Enlightenment] was an important philosophical movement of the era from the beginning to the 1750s. It was also known as the Age of Reason because the enlightenment focused on teaching and allowing humans to find universal truth. In other words, to think and wonder as well as express their thoughts or views about anything. After the Peace of Westphalia and the English Civil War an uprising of philosophy and absolutism were founded as "foundations for knowledge and stability." The enlightenment thinkers/philosophers began to let their new discoveries in physics and and their ideas about what was "just and correct" be known, this leading to the common persons change of views from religion to the shape of the world and universe to how and why their country was run the way it was run. Both the Renaissance and the Reformation influenced the enlightenment greatly. Another important philosophical movement was the [|Romanticism]. The Romanticism was partly an intellectual movement and partly a revolt against some of the ideas of the enlightenment. Yet, the Renaissance was influenced greatly by the ideas of the enlightenment to revolutionize, it focused on expanding the arts. A major historical event that affected the Romanticism was the French Revolution because the French revolution introduced the idea of change and reform.

[|Renaissance Timeline] [|Enlightenment Timeline] [|Enlightenment and Romanticism Timeline]

//3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau// was an important philosopher whose ideas could be found behind every philosophical movement that occurred throughout the beginning to the 1750s. //Charles Montesquieu// another notable philosopher who was well known for his theory of separation of powers, lived throughout the enlightenment and was a big part of the new ideas that were being formed throughout Europe. //Voltaire// another enlightenment thinker was well known for his philosophical writings and defense of civil liberties. He was from France and was an "outspoken supporter of social reform." //John Locke// was an important English philosopher who's ideas had a great influence on political philosophy and later became a minister of government. //William Wordsworth// was an English romantics poet who helped begin the romantic age with the publication of //Lyrical Ballads.//

[|Jean-Jacques Rousseau] [|Charles Montesquieu] [|John Locke]

4. There were many important world events that were going on during these times. Some of them were: the invention of the printing press, which allowed more information to the common man, the [|French Revolution], which also affected the philosophical movements greatly because it was the beginning of new order and change, the [|Peace of Westphalia] ,as well as the [|English Civil War].

Other Important Philosophers: [|Thomas Hobbes] [|Thomas Paine] [|Immanuel Kant] [|George Berkeley] [|Martin Luther] [|Thomas More] [|Isaac Newton] [|Pierre Charron] [|Peter Ramus] [|Jean Bodin] [|Thomas Jefferson] [|David Hume] [|Benjamin Franklin] [|Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling] [|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] [|Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel] [|Samuel Taylor Coleridge] [|Baron d'Holbach]

Work Cited: http://www.philosopher.org.uk/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism