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Which literary style was emphasized by Restoration writers?
Which literary style was emphasized by Restoration writers?
- Prose for reason and intellectual lucidity (correct)
- Fiction for escapism
- Drama for entertainment
- Poetry for emotional expression
Who believed that people needed to be controlled by a strong, centralized state under a single sovereign to prevent unruliness?
Who believed that people needed to be controlled by a strong, centralized state under a single sovereign to prevent unruliness?
- John Locke
- Thomas Hobbes (correct)
- The Royal Society
- Restoration writers
Whose work marks the beginning of British Empiricism?
Whose work marks the beginning of British Empiricism?
- Restoration writers
- Thomas Hobbes
- John Locke (correct)
- The Royal Society
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- Restoration writers emphasized using prose for reason and intellectual lucidity.
- The Royal Society encouraged the use of prose for intellectual clarity.
- Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were important philosophers during the Restoration.
- Hobbes believed that people needed to be controlled by a strong, centralized state under a single sovereign to prevent unruliness.
- Hobbes had a pessimistic view of life, believing it to be "nasty, brutish and short."
- Hobbes had a rigid theory of language and contempt for imagination.
- Locke had a more optimistic view of human nature.
- Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding emphasized reason as the dominant faculty of man.
- Locke believed all knowledge is acquired through experience based on sense impressions.
- Locke's work marks the beginning of British Empiricism.
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