The Enlightenment philosophers had a belief in the rights of humankind, they fought for what they believed in and in a way influenced our freedom and rights today. These four Enlightenment philosophers had different ideas, like the equality for women, freedom of religion, freedom from economics, and freedom of government. ... All the Enlightenment philosophers took part in defending our rights and later shaping our society for the better. ... Although, some might have disagreed with these Enlightenment philosopher all of their ideas of our rights were in a way put to use along the way. ... ...

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The Enlightenment encouraged several revolutions and helped governments. ... Many philosophers fought over it. ... Galileo Galilel, an Italian Philosopher, made several discoveries that conflicted with the church. ... People began questioning the church's teachings; they started looking into other religions. The people began questioning the church's teachings; they started looking at other religions. ...

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In Europe during the 1500s and 1600s, philosophers thought in a medieval type of way. Meaning that all they thought about was God and the role of religion. ... The Social Contract was written by Jean Jacques Rousseau during the enlightenment period. ... The Enlightenment philosophers: Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau argued these unfair traditions and called for individual freedoms, governments that consisted of the people, and religious freedom. ... So in the end, governments in Europe after the enlightenment ended noble privileges, and instead created constitutional monarchies tha...

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This era was the groundwork for a period labeled the Enlightenment. ... These ideologies led to countless others, self labeled as social physicists, social scientists, rationalists, or even social philosophers, expressing their views on the world and how it works. ... Conservatism is tradition, safety nets, routine, hierarchy, authority and religion. I would like to focus on the last of these three elements of the enlightenment for a minute. ... Religion provided a background for revolt. ...

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In Candide, Voltaire shows his hated for two anti-Enlightenment views: war and religion. ... Since Pangloss taught Candide, he was a philosopher and one day Candide strolled off from the army. ... Voltaire's dislike of religion in Candide follows the enlightenment view, and is best shown in the book during Candide's stay at Eldorado. ... The enlightenment believed that religion stood in the way of reason and therefore Voltaire shows his disapproval of religion throughout Candide. ... Through science, philosophers at the time discovered the laws of nature. ...

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The most determined researchers will agree that war does nothing but bring more war to a civilization or religion. ... Voltaire, a French philosopher who produced an age of enlightenment for his era of the mid 1700's, His piece titled Candide, brought together full coincidences and disasters. ... Voltaire's thought on war reflect his liberal thought on thinkers, like philosophers who preceded him; Voltaire contributions to the enlightenment age does not depend on his originality or lack of it. His ideas merit examination because he was one of the most philosophers of his time. ... St...

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The Enlightenment was a time when individualism and change in institutions replaced tradition. ... The Enlightenment also affected people in their rebellion against the Church. ... One famous philosopher from this period, Voltaire, wrote the novel Candide, in which Enlightenment ideas are represented. ... This line, along with many others, shows the snobbery of the nobility during the Enlightenment. ... Candide asks the men about their religion, and says, " Do you mean to say you have no monks teaching and disputing, governing and intriguing, and having people burned if they don't subscri...

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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. ...

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Causes of French Revolution Although the beginning of the French Revolution cannot be pin pointed to one specific event that took place, there were many problems that provoked the people of France to fight for their independence. To list all of the causes would be utter chaos so I decided ...

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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...

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