Would The American Experiment Have Happened Without The Scientific Revolution And Enlightenment

In your opinion, would the radical American Experiment have happened anyway, without the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment? In my opinion, no. The American Experiment would have never happened without the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment. The article states “ The ‘American Experiment’ was the product of centuries of gradual change in the way that humans viewed their place in the cosmos as well as their place on political society, and the implementation of such a radical political philosophy required freedom of thought unfettered by the still prevalent conceptions of how a government ought to function and whence it derive its authority.” This changes occurred beginning with the Renaissance in the 14th century, and throughout the
Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment in the 15th and 16th century. Without the study of the Humanities/liberal arts during the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment, our founding fathers would have never broken free from outdated, but popular, ways of thinking. This liberation from obsolete views of the world motivated them to declare independence from Britain and begin the “American Experiment.” So no, I do not believe the “American Experiment” would have happened without the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment, because the article leads me to believe the Experiment happened because of the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment.