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Which literary style did Restoration writers emphasize?
Who encouraged the use of prose for intellectual clarity?
Whose philosophy was characterized by a pessimistic view of life?
Study Notes
- 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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Description
Test your knowledge of Restoration writers and philosophers with this quiz! Learn about the emphasis on prose for intellectual clarity, the contrasting views of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke on human nature, and their influential works that shaped British Empiricism. See how much you know about the ideas and theories that defined the Restoration period.
