Humanities 1

Response Paper #8: The Age of Reason

 

 

Choose one of the following questions, or come up with one of your own. I have provided relevant links to Internet texts and resources, but feel free to find your own.

 

  1. Respond to the philosophy of Deism.

 

  1. The French National Assembly ratified the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen; however, its citizens did not include women among the “citizens.”Read Olympe de Gouges “Declaration of the Rights of Woman” and respond.

 

  1. Research the history of the French “salon” in this period, and respond.

 

  1. Respond to the philosophy of Rational Humanism.

 

  1. What is Neoclassicism?

 

  1. Listen to music of Mozart and Beethoven. Respond to the differences.

 

  1. What was the Industrial Revolution? What impacts did it have on society?

 

  1. Respond to the “new” sciences of the day.

 

  1. Respond to a painter of this period.

 

  1. The French and American Revolutions had a profound impact on the artists of the age. Imagine a conversation between yourself and either Thomas Jefferson, Maximilien Robespierre, Marie-Antoinette, or Jean-Paul Marat.