... (1724-1804). The French philosophes were the most outspoken and most radical of the century, and to this day when thinking of the Enlightenment, France is the first to come to mind. Late in the eighteenth century, Kant gave the most succinct definition of the Enlightenment: bringing "light into the dark corners of mind," dispelling ignorance, prejudice, and superstition. Kant went to the heart of one aspect of the Enlightenment: its insistence ... that each individual should reason independently, without recourse to the authority of schools, churches, or ... ...

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... leaders carry out brutal ways of religious tyranny against anyone that dares to disagree with them or any of their beliefs. For example, the Inquisition persecutes Pangloss for expressing his ideas and also insanely persecutes Candide for even listening to Pangloss's ideas. Another mode of Voltaire's satire ... about religious ways is that there is Pope in the story who has a daughter. This is totally satirical because a Pope is supposed to have been celibate. Another example is that a Catholic Inquisitor hypocritically ... wants to cast on the ground? To hold existence in horror, and ye...

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... 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 and inspired other countries to evaluate the nature of man and origins of inequality1. American revolutionaries saw t...

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... accentuated knowledge through human logic and reason, basing religion on the sciences, law, and mathematics, while the Great Awakening evoked greater emotional feeling, and joining all classes together, indoctrinating that all were sinners in God's eyes, without a differentiation in class. Prizing feeling over than thinking, and trusting the heart rather than the head, people in the Great Awakening relied mainly on their minister to encourage their ... religious beliefs, and no longer the Bible. The ministers took to more than just preaching to white folk, also spreading the message of ...

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... , and simple arithmetic in their own homes. Even enslaved children were taught the rudiments. Though the Great Awakening was more so a religious movement, it also had its own implications for education. Individual Revival, which rejected the cold rationalism of Puritanism and Anglicanism, resulted from the Great Awakening. This ideal taught the importance of education through one's heart rather than biblical documentation. This movement also brought about ... the creation of new colleges. Princeton, Brown, and Dartmouth Universities are amongst the prestigious institutions established du...

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... and leader known as "the general- for beings one of the best generals in history became the "hero of the hour- while helping the Revolutionaries fight back against the nobles during the Revolution. Napoleon holds true to the heart of the reconstructed France while leading it to economical, political and spiritual success. One of the main causes of the French Revolution was taxation. Before the Revolution the 1st estate, or the clergy paid only 2% of ... their income in taxes and the 2nd estate ... ...

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... and there every heart bounded with gaiety, and every eye sparkled with terror. It would require the pencil of a master to trace in all its dark coloring, that picture of calamity and horror, which Paris presented at this period. The citizens in general saw with stupefied terror processions of death which daily encumbered the streets, and the feelings of sympathy ... country with class division. People were divided into three classes. The First class consisted of the clergy. The Second class consisted of the nobility. The Third class included the bourgeoisie, the city workers and the peas...

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