Enlightenment greatly influenced the French Revolution to emphasize the importance of the person who caused a boost to the universal rights through the use of reason and logic that caused people to examine the intelligence of the social hierarchy traditional, and challenging traditional authority figures, such as King of France. " The Enlightenment and religion is so important to argued that an exaggeration of the role of deism has led to a lack of commitment ... meeting place for various revolutionary movements. participants stages of the French Revolution used these ideas in a top thinkers ...

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... ; he had a partial and interrupted education at Oxford, and then he completed his studies in Geneva; on the whole his outlook was French and cosmopolitan rather than British, and he was much under the intellectual influence of that great Frenchman who is best known under the name of Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, 1694 1778). Voltaire -was an author of enormous industry; seventy ... volumes of him adorn the present -writer's shelves, and another edition of Voltaire's works runs to ninety- four; he ... of Christianity, and what fires, of political and religious passion might...

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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. French revolutionary Jean-Jacques Rousseau introduced this idea of natural rights ... abolished it in their written constitutions, a new concept derived from the Enlightenment. After the Hai...

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... or tradition. Hobbes's pragmatic view of government, which stressed the equality of individuals, opened the way to free criticism of government and the right to revolution, ideas that Hobbes himself opposed. An influential early liberal was the English philosopher John Locke. In his political writings, which deeply influenced the framers of the U.S. Constitution, he argued for popular sovereignty, the right of rebellion against oppression, and toleration of religious ... later pronouncements defending revolutions, attacking paternalistic government, and upholding free expression of unpo...

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