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Title: Daniel Defoe: Journal of the Plague Year (Enlightenment- Science and Religion)
Description: First Year University notes from Enlightenment Lecture on Journal of a Plague year with a focus on the impact of science and religion during the time of it's writing as well as the use of it in the text.
Description: First Year University notes from Enlightenment Lecture on Journal of a Plague year with a focus on the impact of science and religion during the time of it's writing as well as the use of it in the text.
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Enlightenment
Week 3 Science and Religion
October 12th 2015
Daniel Defoe: Journal of the Plague Year
How do science and religion conflict in tension?
-Catastrophic events such as plagues and earthquakes
^Showed the limitations of the human reason
Daniel Defoe
-dissenter (didn’t belong to the standard church and such wasn't aloud to attend university or
take a civil job - lawyer)
-novelist
Genre
-Presents itself as an eyewitness account and is written by a resident of the citizen
...
Pit scene is a representation of the book and time
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Light can penetrate yet not the
disease
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“A walking
destroyer” Terrifying because symptoms did not always present themselves
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Charles II was a libertine, Mary Monarch, court notorious for entertainment and frivolities
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Lax morality
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God’s relationship with the jews
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Early on Defoe focuses
on this as the causation
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If
its divine there is nothing to do about it
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H
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torn between both sides
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F
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Religious but observer
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Stories of human viciousness
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-Representation of human feelings of affection and pity part of what Daniel Roberts calls the
texts defense of human nature
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F
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Describes that people just become passionate
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Feelings
viciousness and love
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pity
charity etc
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Author was only five during the plague in London and written long after
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H
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has two
dominant qualities, Curiosity and restlessness
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How to learn from
history
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Prior to the journal Defoe had written a little about it
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Tension in Defoe that he’s writing for a practical purpose but a fear that he can’t actually
communicate what really happened
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Title: Daniel Defoe: Journal of the Plague Year (Enlightenment- Science and Religion)
Description: First Year University notes from Enlightenment Lecture on Journal of a Plague year with a focus on the impact of science and religion during the time of it's writing as well as the use of it in the text.
Description: First Year University notes from Enlightenment Lecture on Journal of a Plague year with a focus on the impact of science and religion during the time of it's writing as well as the use of it in the text.