What evidence is there that the author(s) of your chosen reading are influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment and/or modernism? As far as you can, link your response to themes developed by significant Enlightenment thinkers mentioned in this subject. ... This concept is similar to the theories of which Jean Jacques Rousseau argued during the enlightenment period (Russell, 1978: chapter XIX). ... This was also a fundamental key concept that resulted from enlightenment thinking. ... This once again demonstrates their enlightenment perspective, emphasising individualism and the media&...

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Although the French Revolution was at the heart of the Enlightenment, similar ideas served as driving forces of the American, Haitian, and Latin American Revolutions as well. The revolutionaries agreed that life, liberty, and property should be considered natural rights, emphasizing property as a main source of inequality among man, and constructed new governments based on popularized Enlightenment ideas. ... While the revolutionaries in Latin America struggled with slave-like treatment from their superiors, the US and Haiti recognized the noxious effects of slavery and abolished it in their...

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In England in the 17th century, during the Great Rebellion, Englishmen in the New Model Army of Parliament began to debate liberal ideas concerning extension of the suffrage, parliamentary rule, the responsibilities of government, and freedom of conscience. The controversies of this period produced ...

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The concepts of 'Jiyushugi' (principle of self-judgement) and 'Bummei Kaika' (civilisation and enlightenment) had been celebrated through the writings of earlier Meiji intellectuals such as Fukuzawa Yukichi and Nakamura Masano15, and had remained sufficiently vitalised up until the 1920's with political organisations such as the Kenseikai party (Constitutional Government party) making considerable apparent headway in achieving democratic governance. ...

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