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    “History doesn’t repeat itself‚ but it does rhyme”(Mark Twain). The Enlightenment was a period of time during the 18th century where thinkers applied the principles of reason and scientific method that helped influence society today. A wide variety of books‚ essays‚ inventions‚ scientific discoveries‚ laws‚ wars‚ and revolutions were inspired and created by the Enlightenment (history.com).There were hundreds of different philosophers who helped spread the new ideas but only two really helped ignite

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    Immanuel Kant‚ “What Is Enlightenment?” This reading is an essay by Immanuel Kant going into detail about the lack of enlightenment‚ explain what enlightenment is and what the public needs in order to be enlightened. Kant explains what dependency is and how it is hard for someone to work themselves out of it and that enlightenment is a person’s emergence from their own dependency. He says that the public can only achieve enlightenment slowly. Freedom is required for enlightenment according to Kant‚ the

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    Name: Blaire Santos Teacher: Ms. Amauri Amoa Grade: 90/100 Associates Degree Level Revolution in the Atlantic World 2nd November‚ 2011 Discuss the ways in which the ideas of the Enlightenment shaped the birth of the American Republic between 1775 and 1787. The Enlightenment was an epoch of important philosophical‚ social and rational reformation which birthed itself out of Europe. Famous Philosophers such as John Locke‚ Jeremy Bentham‚ Jean-Jacques Rousseau‚ Montesquieu‚ and Voltaire

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    looking upon any thinkers in recorded history‚ we must analyze the influences‚ assuming there are some‚ that provide a foundation or stemmed the creation of the thinkers line of thought or view on a subject. For instance‚ the philosophes of the Enlightenment are often assumed to have formulated their ideas single-handedly but if we were to analyze their thoughts we would see all of them stem from other ideas‚ or directly oppose thinker’s views from the Scientific Revolution‚ such as the relationship

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    The Age of Enlightenment promoted the power of reason in order to reform society and to advance knowledge. The leaders of the movement criticized the traditional beliefs and institutions. As a result‚ women’s social and economic roles were re-evaluated. For example‚ Mary Wollstonecraft‚ who lived during the last stages of the Enlightenment‚ wrote The Vindication of the Rights of Women where she clearly criticized women’s education and sexual discrimination. On the other hand‚ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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    This era is know as the Enlightenment or sometimes known as The Age of Reason. Some of the people associated with the Enlightenment are Baron De Montesquieu‚ Voltaire‚ and John Locke. Some of the ideas related to the Enlightenment are limited government‚ freedom of speech‚ natural rights‚ and Separation of powers. Enlightenment ideas reflected in American colonial society in many ways which will further be explained in the following paragraphs. John Locke’s Enlightenment ideas were very influential

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    Many places that were enlightened during around the Enlightened Age were actually absolute monarchs. The question here is where these monarchs lead by truly enlightened leaders or were they just using a scheme to promote themselves and to keep their positions. It is hard to tell which Catherine the Great is. To find out‚ you must look at her personality‚ situation‚ foreign policies‚ and economical‚ social‚ and political domestic policies. By looking at these‚ you can see she was‚ for the most part

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    perhaps one of the most prevalent of these groups were the Puritans. Puritanism had been around since the reign of Queen Elizabeth‚ but in the colonies they had the chance to get away from the different restrictions they had faced prior to this time. What made Puritans unique even in the colonies was the fact that they believed everyone had to make his or her own profession of faith‚ and they held that any official who was a part of a Puritan colony had to be not only a church member‚ but also be seen

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    As it has been established in the great American history‚ colonists came to America for many reasons. They came to explore‚ to make money‚ to spread and practice their religion freely‚ and to live on land of their own. The Pilgrims and Puritans came to America to practice religious freedom. In the 1500s England broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and created a new church called the Church of England. Everyone in England had to belong to the church. There was a group of people called Separatists

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    In the early 17th century‚ the Puritan community was split into two groups: Separatist Puritans and the non- Separatist Puritans. The Separatist Puritans viewed the English society around them as tarnished because the Anglican Church along with the King was forcing their beliefs upon them. The Separatist Puritans argued that it was beyond an individual’s or any church authority’s control to instill a faith upon one who did not believe in it The non-Separatist Puritans did not tolerate those who questions

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