From Antiquity to Enlightenment: Changes in the Objectivity of Written History, and the Continuance of Two Major School's in Written History. ... Finally we come to the Enlightenment period wherein resides two very important writers. ... Now the father of Modern history, Von Ranke, enters the scene with the enlightenment. ... Von Ranke criticizes historian philosophers who assert that we can know everything. ...

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The real issue was far more complex and involved the convergence of numerous factors, including the social differences in the country, the financial situation, political issues, poor leadership and the influence of the enlightenment. ... The social structure in France was a significant factor, especially with the inequity and the thoughts of the Enlightenment. ... Jean Jacque Rousseau, the well-known French philosopher of the French Enlightenment, was an advocate of natural law, and held that men should be born free, and that no man should be able to force others into servitude, but observed t...

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Baptized at the age of six, he was not greatly influenced by religion; rather, it was the radical social policies during the Enlightenment that influenced him greatly. ... In the middle Ages, alchemists strived to find, "The Philosopher's Stone- which is a fabled stone that had the capability of turning base metals into gold. ...

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