European intellectual life in the eighteenth century was marked by
A) growing anti-Semitism and sharper persecution of minorities in universities.
B) the emergence of secularization and a search to find the natural laws governing human life.
C) sophism and the mockery of past traditions.
D) a return of monastic schools and medieval modes of training religious thinkers.
E) an intense pessimism about the possibility of human progress.
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Q1: The great scientists of the seventeenth century,
Q2: The French Physiocrats, in their belief in
Q3: Although many European rulers desired to emulate
Q4: The eighteenth-century English historian Edward Gibbon blamed
Q6: Rousseau, whose novel Émile emphasized the heart
Q7: Enlightened thinkers can be understood as secularists
Q8: John Locke influenced the eighteenth-century Enlightenment through
Q9: Denis Diderot was an ardent Christian.
Q10: Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was
Q11: John Locke's tabula rasa refers to
A)the temple
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