Dbq Enlightenment Research Paper
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Enlightenment was revolutionary to the ideas of the enlightenment philosophers. It changed all of the people’s lives and world. Although there are a lot of revolutionary ideas for enlightenment philosophers, the three most important is what enlightenment is, what the radical points were, and how it changed the government. What is enlightenment? Some say, “Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity” (document A). Others say it’s your mind and your body reaching equality (document B). But, either way you want to think about it you have to reach enlightenment to think clearly. What were radical points? They started being radical when they started giving people their natural rights, and separating the government in three branches.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that enlightenment changed all of the people's lives and the world. the three most important ideas are what it is, what the radical points were, and how it changed the government.
- Explains that enlightenment is man's leaving his self-caused immaturity, while others say it’s your mind and your body reaching equality.
- Explains that montesquieu was radical by his thinking of people working in all three branches of government, while beccaria rebelled against executions and torturing.
- Explains that thomas hobbes thought it should be an absolute government, but john locke thinks that people should have life, liberty, and property.
- Explains that the enlightenment was revolutionary for philosophers. it changed how people lived their everyday life, changed the way the government, and how they should have rights.
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- Explains that the enlightenment was a movement of thought and belief concerned with the interrelated ideas of god, reason, nature, and man that claimed wide assent among intellectuals in 17th and 18th century europe.
- Explains that enlightened science contributed to society by the destruction of the wide domain of medieval errors in method. experimental reasoning could solve all of man's problems.
- Opines that religion would cause division and strife that the effects of debate are still felt today.
- Explains that european society was grounded on the aristocratic elite, and that the medieval sense of rank and degree was persistent and became more rigid through the century.
- Explains that the aristocracy was intimately related to the state and was the head of the social hierarchy. the most striking feature of this period was marked contrasts in the lives and experiences of people in different social standing.
- Explains that each state was based on regions of smaller communities. there were no individual rights as we in the modern world perceive them now, but a social order in which one's status was maintained and the privileges that came with that status were given by default.
- Explains that land was also the basis of the economy in eighteenth century society. the aristocracy were the landowners and influenced or had direct control over the peasants lives.
- Explains that the major monarchies had no standard of uniform law, money, or weights and measures. continental europe had internal tolls that hampered the passage of goods.
- Explains that the "have nots" of the eighteenth century london had a tough time during the restoration.
- Explains that the "haves", or the upper class, were fairly well-off. they spent most of their time dressed in frilly french clothing gossiping at the coffeehouses in london.
- Opines that most politicians in the united states today are fairly wealthy, and don't know what it is like for the have-nots of the country.
- Explains that those who have money get the advantages that come with money, such as advanced education, good doctors, and exposure to cultural happenings.
- Opines that today's poor aren't as poor as they were in the eighteenth century. they're aided by the government, but are still looked down upon by society.
- Opines that it is possible for a have or have not to fall out of their respective circles. it is becoming easier now to break out from the circle of the havens with scholarships and other things.
- Explains that there have been haves and have nots since the beginning of history. some have tried to fight against it, but it always ends up backfiring into things like communism.
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