THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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it influenced monarchies rights
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it influenced citizen rights
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it influenced government rights
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it influenced women rights
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Enlightenment brought secular thought to Europe and reshaped the ways people understood issues such as liberty, equality, and individual rights. Today those ideas serve as the cornerstone of the world’s strongest democracies.
Detailed explanation-2: -Enlightenment thinkers wanted to improve human conditions on earth rather than concern themselves with religion and the afterlife. These thinkers valued reason, science, religious tolerance, and what they called “natural rights”-life, liberty, and property.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Enlightenment was a movement that focused on individual rights, liberty, and reason, as well as the purpose of government. John Locke presented the idea of natural rights, which are provided by natural law. Natural rights include life, liberty, and property, and we find them in the Declaration of Independence.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Enlightenment produced modern secularized theories of psychology and ethics. The study of science and the investigation of natural phenomena were encouraged, but Enlightenment thinkers also applied science and reason to society’s problems.