The Enlightenment And The Great Awakening

Voltaire believed and fought for religious tolerance. Montesquieu believed in separation of power. All of the philosophers ideas had a great impact, but some had a greater impact than others. John Locke is an english physician known to be the most influential to the enlightenment. His ideas are based off of the education/educating others.

How long did it take for the human race to start realizing things around them? The Enlightenment was a time period where people began to question absolute monarchy and that’s where reason and scientific methods were applied to all aspects of life during the 17th and 18th centuries. The Enlightenment thinkers called philosophes were scholars who flaunted the ideas of the Enlightenment. The American Revolution (1775-1783) and the French Revolution (1789-1815) were direct causes of the Enlightenment. The ideas of John Locke, Voltaire, Adam Smith, and Mary Wollstonecraft all played important roles in the revolutions.

THE DIDEROT EFFECT 1706032059 MEGHA RANGARAJ The Enlightenment period was simply known as the “age of reasons”. Many thinkers / philosophers / artist / writers etc. from different places in France, Britain and other parts of Europe argued with the authorities that “humanity could be improved through rational change”. The enlightenment period brought out or rather gave rise to various books, essays, inventions, scientific discoveries, laws, wars and revolutions. One such prominent figure in the Enlightenment Period was a French philosopher / artist / writer called Denis Diderot whose works included The Encyclopedia, the novels La Religiusse, Le Neveaux De Rameau etc.

The Great Awakening refer to several periods of dramatic religious revival in Anglo-American religious history. They have also been described as periodic revolutions in American religious thought. The Age of Enlightenment refers to either the eighteenth century in European philosophy, or the longer period including the seventeenth century and the Age of Reason. I would have to go with the Enlightenment because it is the basis of our political culture and it led to the Great Awakening, which is the basis of our spiritual culture.

The American Enlightenment brought much impact on colonial society in America on political ideas of colonists to receive independence from Great Britain. John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau had beliefs that individuals deserve freedom and human rights to life, liberty, and property. People deserve to have their own opinion, natural rights, and decisions. “The Enlightenment was a progress with the people in the Western world thought about themselves and the societies in which they lived.” (Schultz, p. 69, 2009) The Enlightenment brought support within religions and education. Ministers from New England established an educational system and Enlightenment goals in human logic.

The concept of Enlightenment, as defined by Immanual Kant and John Locke, provided influence to the emergence of societies where individual thought and social equality were enabled. As such, the theory has had significant historical influence especially in advocating human rites. Uprisings such as The French and American Revolutions are embedded with the Enlightenment ideology for liberation to the people. Both uprisings evolved due to the suppression of the people by the ruling parties, much like the Fascist dictatorship that was condoned by Musolini. Similar historical events have seen, and still see, mankind embrace Enlightenment concepts and fight for their freedom and prevail over a government based oppression.

The Age of Reason, or Age of Enlightenment, was a time in the 17th and 18th centuries when philosophy, science, technology, and politics changed and influenced the entire world. The Age of Reason led to the production of many wars, laws, books, and inventions that led to the American and French Revolutions, which were inspired by new ideals and principles that emerged during the Age of Reason. Throughout the Age of Reason many influential people such as, Francis Bacon, John Locke, and Sir Isaac Newton, were living by the guiding principle of contemplation. Each was either a philosopher, scientist, mathematician, theorist, or any combination of those thereof, and used their beliefs, Francis Bacon’s advocacy of the scientific method and methodical

Authors came forth with new ideas during a time of change known as the New England Renaissance, which sparked a different and modern way of thinking. One of the key movements that was brought about by the developing ideas, was the transcendentalist movement. Authors and philosophers of the time started to use intuition, and a spiritual way of looking at things. One of the main figures of American transcendentalism was Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson is a transcendentalist author.

Throughout time enlightenment has influenced a lot of important events in history. Enlightenment had a big influence on America. The American Enlightenment started in the eighteenth century. It influenced the ideas that have shaped the Constitution of the United States (Dixon 257). The idea of liberty caused the Americans to rebel against the British.

The Puritan’s Influence on the Development of the New England Colonies Sander Cochran In the seventeenth century as the English colonized North America a group of religious dissidents known as the Puritans began to settle the Massachusetts Bay Colony and greatly influenced the colonies early development. The Puritans effected social development of the colony by stressing the importance of literacy and education, the creation of a model Christian community, and the advancement of the common good. Puritan settlers influenced economic develop by introducing a strong religiously rooted work ethic and a focus on agriculture. Puritan faith and ideals effected political development by instituting a state religion and creating a democratic government