enlightenment rhetorics
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Enlightenment Rhetoric:The Age of Reason
Giambattista Vico On the Study Methods of Our Time
&John Locke Human Understanding
Enlightenment Thinking
• Reject superstition• Sought truth through use of reason• Viewed world from secular, human centered perspective• Embraced humanism• Limitlessness in knowledge – revolutions in science and
philosophy• Empiricism• Experimental method• A belief in human perfectibility through education and
unlimited progress
Detailed Explanation of the System of Human Knowledge, 1751
Diderot’s Encyclopedie
Phase 1: Rococo Style
Jean-Antoine Watteau, Departure from Cythera, 1717
Jean-Honore Fragonard, The Lover Crowned, 1771-1773
Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784
Phase 2: Neoclassicism
David, The Death of Socrates, 1787
Casper David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818
Phase 3: Romanticism
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