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    Enlightenment‚ transcendentalism‚ and puritan theology: 3 philosophies that shaped 3 centuries in America. Since the time periods of each philosophy overlapped with the others‚ all 3 had similarities as well as differences. From these philosophies came different writers with different views‚ shaping American prose. A major Enlightenment author was Thomas Paine. Thomas Paine wrote a piece called "The Age of Reason." In this piece he fully encompassed the ideologies of the Enlightenment. These included

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    Voltaire was a French philosophe‚ and one of the most influential figures during the Enlightenment. Voltaire wrote over seventy volumes with a great variety of genres. His Enlightenment ideas were built on several essential elements---- senses‚ reason‚ emphasis on science‚ deist belief and a rationalized government. According to Enlightenment thinkers‚ senses were an essential element of their ideas. Human beings were capable of using their senses to observe the universe. By using their individual

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    The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening brought with it the transitioning from old ideas about authority and religion towards individuality‚ and this was an important part of the process of freedom to come in the near future (Schultz‚ 2014). Moreover‚ prior to the Enlightenment and Great Awakening‚ the Western world believed that their rulers were more important than them‚ that a person could not change society‚ and that the life was a temporary stop between heaven or hell (Schultz‚ 2009). However

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    EDUCATION – PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT AND POWER Good morning respected teachers‚ judges and my dear friends. I am Mayank Apte from class X representing bhakti house and I am going to speak on the topic ‘education- path to enlightenment and power.’ Education – the word itself means the theory or practice of teaching. Education has been there since the past times when great thinkers and mathematicians like Aryabhatta and Bhaskaracharya gave the world a new way of learning. Aryabhatta gave the utmost

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    materials to complete you answers. Step I: Basic‚ factual analysis of a reading 1. List three examples of events/methods from Voltaire’s Candide which you believe best illustrate the issues related to the Scientific Revolution and to the Enlightenment. a. The reaction of the Portuguese Inquisitor about the earthquake. b. The lifestyle of people in El Dorado. c. The despair of Paquette and the monk Brother Giroflee 2. Now for each point above‚ explain why this example illustrates these

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    • The Enlightenment in 18th and 19th century Europe was a movement focused on the primary source of authority and legitimacy. The work of thinkers Aguste Comte‚ Karl Marx‚ George Simmel‚ Hebert Spencer‚ Emile Durkheim‚ and Max Weber were all major influencers of the Enlightenment in the 18th and 19th century on the development of sociological theory. Aguste Comte is the French sociologist who founded sociology in 1836. The Enlightenment was a time period of development and change in philosophical

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    The Political‚ Economic and Social Aspects the Enlightenment The Enlightenment‚ also known as Age of Reason‚ was a cultural movement that spread through England‚ France‚ Germany‚ and other parts of Europe. The Enlightenment mainly focused on mathematics‚ science‚ art‚ philosophy‚ politics and literature in the 1700s. This movement took away the fear of the world and the medieval views that were placed upon the people for so many years‚ and it also opened their eyes to new ideas and reason. Old

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    The Enlightenment period was a time of great reasoning and new ideas. It was the time of many changes‚ and certain people in society didn’t necessarily like the change. It inspired a lot of the world as we know it today. Without certain knowledge like the Copernican theory we might not have made it to the moon‚ and without Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Lock the American justice system might not have been created. Scientists and those seeking that knowledge in the Enlightenment period were met

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his
writings
demonstrate
a
deep
skepticism
regarding
the
 complete
faculty
of
human
reason
as
deified
by
Enlightenment
philosophers
of
the
 eighteenth
century‚
as
well
as
his
own
father.
To
Mill‚
the
philosophic‚
rational
approach‚
 and
especially
the
Utilitarian
ideas
espoused
by
Bentham‚
is
incomplete
in
that
it
fails
to
 consider
alternative
opinions
or
human
emotions
which
do
not
fit
into
the
image
of
the
 rational‚
calculating
man.
To
Mill‚
the
Enlightenment
philosophers
became
too
subversive
 in
their
singular
focus
on
the
flaws
of
society

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    When we think of challenging institutions we first think of the Enlightenment and the role the movement played in completely changing the course of human reason and thinking. Religion is and has been a central part of people’s lives throughout history‚ it dominated how many people thought and felt about the world around them. Before the Enlightenment‚ the Christian Church was an absolute power and domineering institution that persecuted people as heretics if they attempted to discredit or disprove

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