In "Candide", the novel ridicules a number of Enlightenment Period philosophies, it showed how the Enlightenment was nothing like a uniform movement. Candide's setting takes place during the Enlightenment Era; "The Enlightenment" is the name for a movement that encompasses a wide variety of ideas and advances in the fields of philosophy, science, and medicine. ... The followers of the Enlightenment called for rebellion against superstition, fear, and prejudice. ... Voltaire strongly opposed certain Enlightenment ideas about social class. ... Therefore, the name of the Enlightenment could ...

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Michel Foucault, a French philosopher of the 20th century, who uses opposing ideas of the Enlightenment in attempt to prove human worth and identity, has also addressed this question. ... Living within a panoptic society destroys the Enlightenment's ultimate ideal of the autonomous self. ... Once immoral boundaries of surveillance are crossed, one is stripped of absolute reason and freedom, thus destroying the strong Enlightenment ideal of autonomy. ...

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Keeping that in mind, ideology had a major effect in the making of the modern world, and was the prescription for the change influenced by the Enlightenment of a society, which deemed to be man made. ... The ideas of these principles were not new, the foundation of them could be traced back to the Enlightenment and even further. ...

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Assisting the Elderly Population's Quest for Independence Assisting the elderly (age 65 and older) population in maintaining their independence has become a national issue. Recognition of the social, financial, health and emotional issues involved in caring for the elderly began in the 1940's...

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"Wake up! It's time to get ready for church!" A mother begins a Sunday morning by waking up her two children to get them ready for church. While the youngest child is excited for a morning of singing hymns, seeing friends, and praying, the oldest child would rather skip the whole thing and go straig...

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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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