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Age of Reason Influences (5)
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Descartes, Voltaire, Newton, Locke, Paine.
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Coined the phrase: "I think; therefore I am"
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Descartes
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John Locke's theory on Govt.
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Govt. is a "social contract", and a govt. who oppresses people should be overthrown.
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John-Jacques Rousseau theory on humanity.
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Men are good!
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Famous Deists
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Franklin, Jefferson, Paine
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Unitarianism
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Response to Catholic belief in the Trinity. Denied doctrines of depravity, predestination, and eternal punishment.
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Continental forms of literature and the one exception.
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Travel writing, poetry, drama (more difficult). Exception was political writings.
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The Romantic Ideals
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Moral Enthusiasm, Faith in the value of the individual, faith in value of intuitive perception, natural world is a source of goodness, human society is the source of corruption.
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New York Romantic influences
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Washington Irving, Fanny Fern
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The Southern Romantic Influences
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Edgar Allen Poe, George Washington Harris, Davy Crockett
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New England Romantic Influences
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne
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What was Transcendentalism?
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Reaction against Calvinist Orthodoxy and rationalism of Unitarian Church. Belief in the divinity of humanity, and of nature.
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Fulfilled many roles: ambassador, philosopher, author, inventor, scientist, humorist, and business man. Was the only person to sign all 4 Revolutionary Documents.
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Ben Franklin
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Signed: Declaration of Independence, the treaty of alliance with France, treaty of peace with England, and the Constitution.
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Ben Franklin
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Studied: Gulf stream, fossils, bifocals and the lightning rod.
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Franklin.
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