THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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I believe that humans are naturally evil and selfish.
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I believe in a strict social contract that limits rights and freedoms.
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I believe that humans are naturally good and can progress.
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I believe in increasing the power of the church and monarchy
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Enlightenment is most identified with its political accomplishments. The era is marked by three political revolutions, which together lay the basis for modern, republican, constitutional democracies: The English Revolution (1688), the American Revolution (1775–83), and the French Revolution (1789–99).
Detailed explanation-2: -The Enlightenment is commonly associated with men whose writing and thinking combined philosophy, politics, economics and science, notably John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Isaac Newton and Thomas Jefferson.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Enlightenment was a period in European history that took place during the 18th century. During this era, philosophers stressed the values of skepticism, reason, and individualism, as well as liberty and secularism.
Detailed explanation-4: -Four themes recur in both European and American Enlightenment texts: modernization, skepticism, reason and liberty.