THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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that emotions, as well as reason, were important to human development.
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hat emotions interfered with human reason & should be suppressed as much as possible.
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that self-interested individuals should be removed from society & re-educated to make them obey the general will.
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that women were inferior to men & do not deserve to be taken seriously.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Locke and Rousseau were both thinkers during the Enlightenment, and they both came up with theories of government. Locke believed in human progress, whereas Rousseau believed society was a step backward from humans’ original state of nature.
Detailed explanation-2: -Rousseau believed that the so called progress in the arts and sciences created by enlightenment writers and thinkers led people away from leading the virtuous life. He linked cultural progress with moral decadence.
Detailed explanation-3: -Rousseau was the least academic of modern philosophers and in many ways was the most influential. His thought marked the end of the European Enlightenment (the “Age of Reason”). He propelled political and ethical thinking into new channels. His reforms revolutionized taste, first in music, then in the other arts.
Detailed explanation-4: -Rather, man has used it to become a “tyrant over himself and nature.” For Rousseau, individual reason and psychology are inextricably mixed: humans rationalize injustice in accordance with their desires; reason becomes ideology.