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    During the 1800s the enlightenment ideas were considered revolutionary, but by what standards and why? During the enlightenment period there were many changes to the world that we know as civil. The Renaissance period changed by the documents written to change man as a being. The Renaissance age went through change by enlightenment with newly added documents. One document being ‘’What is enlightenment’’(source Immanuel Kant), document one states ‘’intelligence without guidance of another. ...it

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    Gabit Gabdullin Age of Enlightenment: intellectuals that changed the Europe’s way of thinking. Intro The Age of Enlightenment is one of the turning points in the human history, which affected the economy, politics and social order throughout the world. Period of Enlightenment is vividly bounded in the late XVII century up to the end of XVIII century. Main purpose of the Enlightenment time’s intellectuals was to affect and transform the society in which they lived, by challenging traditions by the

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    How Did the Enlightenment Change Western Civilization? How Much Do Enlightenment Idea’s Continue to Influence the World? The Enlightenment, it was also known as the Age of Reason, it was a philosophical and cultural movement that took place in Europe later and spread to North America, The Enlightenment gave rise to new concepts and strong beliefs in Education, liberty and freedom. During this period, Salons were places people gathered to discuss varies topics

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    The Enlightenment was caused by the broad idea of the Renaissance, a period full of expression but by the artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, to say that da Vinci is the perfect representation of the Enlightenment presents limitations that will be addressed. The Renaissance period intellectual developments with a mixture of religion would be apparent during the Enlightenment. Artists,writers of the Renaissance were able to pass the only their knowledge and scientific inspiration leading to the “Age

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    The Enlightenment or Siècle des Lumières as it known in France was the start of a physiological movement which controlled world ideas of the 18th century. It is believed by French historians that this period started in between 1715 and 1789 the year Louis XIV died. Others date the start of the enlightenment back to 1620 with the start of the scientific revolution. Enlightenment thinkers wanted goals of tolerance, progress, liberty, and reason as well to end the abuses of the state and church. The

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    There was a period in European history when religion did not govern a person’s way of life. Philosophy and science gained forefront and a new belief system took hold. This new belief system lifted traditional constraints and allowed people to think and act freely. It was a new form of happiness called The Enlightenment. The Enlightenment, or Age of Reason, was a event that occurred during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This event or period in time was attributed to major changes

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    First of all, the age of Enlightenment was a period that was heavily focused on matters of political equality. For example, according to History.com “European politics, philosophy, science and communications were radically reoriented during the course of the “long 18th century” (1685-1815) as part of a movement referred to by its participants as the Age of Reason, or simply the Enlightenment” (Enlightenment, 2009). It was a very important period since many things were being discovered and produced

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    were important, whereas the enlightenment was a movement of the 18th century that focused on reason and human’s ability to use reason to improve upon existing ideas and social and political institutions.The Enlightenment followed reason, unlike the Romantic era that valued feeling over reason.The Enlightenment and the Romantic era also differed when it came to cultural and social values, the Romantic era believed that  freedom should not have a limit while the Enlightenment believed that freedom is

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    The Enlightenment, also known to be the ‘Age of Reason’, period was a time, which took place in the late 17th century and carried on in the 18th century. The Enlightenment is a broad subject, and it travelled through many different parts of Europe, such as England, France, and Germany. The main root of the Enlightenment was the scientific revolution, which had a profound effect on how many people perceived what was around them. The time of the Enlightenment was a diverse period as it was concerned

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    Americans with foreign education brought European’s Enlightenments; then, those ideas were distributed among the people creating several consequences such the Common Sense pamphlet and the beginning of the Declaration of the Independence. Therefore, the Enlightenment era was the period where most of the illiterate people disappeared in America. The era of Enlightenment was the starting point for the liberalism of ideas. Enlightenment is a period of time where people realized that the story about the

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