John Locke was among the most influential political philosophers of the Enlightenment period. ... The citizens of Canada are fortunate to have such freedom, equality of gender, race, and religion. ... The revolution took place from 1789 to 1799 marking the global decline of absolute monarchies and organized religions and replacing them with democracies and republics. ...
In response to the new thinking that was sparked by the Enlightenment, Romanticism, the Industrial Revolution and other changes in society, bloody and peaceful revolutions took place all over Europe. ... This document showed the romantic views of French-Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as the Enlightenment's rationalism. ... A child of the Enlightenment and advanced in the ranks by the revolution, Napoleon strove to create a meritocracy, a domestic system based on skill and talent rather than artificial and inherited worth like the aristocracy. ... Before the French R...
The most eloquent and influential male advocate of women's rights was the philosopher Condorcet. ... Condorcet maintained that those who voted against the rights of others, no matter their religion, color, or sex, should forfeit their own rights. ...
