MMW 13 Chapter Notes - Chapter PGS 571-576: Scottish Enlightenment, Travel Literature, Age Of Enlightenment
6 Jun 2017
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Mmw 13 textbook notes the enlightenment (pgs 571-576) Jesuit missionaries conduit of knowledge about asia, specifically china. Some scholars romanticized and praised china, others thought it was a bad place ruled through fear. Some deists thought islam made more sense than christianity. Writing about islam to reflect on western practices. Mary wortley montagu: wife of english ambassador to ottomans; turkish people sympathetic and civilized; women were not oppressed in ottoman empire. Native people were examples of the natural man", and were associated with the goodness of humanity and what life would be like without a corrupt society. Beginning of classification of race: gorges-louis leclerc: humans were one race and then developed into other races due to climate conditions, previously people were grouped into nations, europeans placed at the top of the ladder. They were the ones examining the issue, of course they put themselves at the top: race was physical, biological superiority, helped to legitimize slavery.
