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Subject: The Context of Ideas in the 18th C.

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• Main Ideas
• Key words;
  • Observation, Reason, Empiricsim, Skepticism, Nature
• Questions that connect points
• Important points

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Is poet born or made? Made.

a sense of relief

the need for social cultural and religious unity

a skepticism of dogmatism

Heroic couplet caesura

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However the same view also argues that the pursue of ultimate truth is…

Fear

they create fear by creating mysteries

Reason

• John Dryden Religio Laici 1682
• “So pale grows reason in religion’s sight so dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light”
• Natural Philosophy
• The Royal society of London for the improving of natural knowledge was formed by the Charles 2
• Natural religion, deism
• Natural religion refer to the study of nature as a book written by God this form of religion later called Deism. It rejected the instutuions of religion specifically Christianism emhasis on the unknown. It argued that human beings can obtain a sufficient knowledge of God.
• Alexander Pope on essay on man
• Ontology
• French Rev.
• The true religion according to Paine;
  • the belief in one God and no more
  • The rejection of a tripartite structure of God
  • The Belief in the equality of human beings
  • The rejection of the institutionalized religions
  • The acknowledgment of reason as the basic tenet
  • Sincerity

Adulterous connection of church

Journal Writing

Aims of the spectator

Neoclassical/Augustan Poetry

It emerged as a reaction against the ornamental language of the Elizabethan sonnets and the extravagant style of the metaphysical poetry.

regularity and restraint in poetry

Virgil, Ovid, Horace important

1. Reason; Had a more prestigious place during neoclassical period. Moral issues reason guided by concious. In phsical matters by the order of universe
2. Follow nature; It means representing the universal permanent and representative elements. In the moral and intellectural experience of man. It means explaining the permanent truth of humanity. Shakespeare praised.. Additionally following the ancient or classical authors is identical as following nature.
3. The Original
4. The General; Neoclassical writers prioritized the explanation of the geneal over that in particular. Bring the general in life?
5. Wit; Wit is explained by the John Dryden as deep thoughts in common language. It also refers to the technical skills of the poet, to teach classical values to people
6. Clarity;

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<aside> 📎 Summary:

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