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Karl Marx, Adam Smith, Enlightenment, Revolution, the State, and the Individual

change and much of the change had hints of individuality and liberty, although most did not demand democracy. In 1776, the famous...

A Comparison of Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now

A 5 page discusion of the differences between the movie rendition of the book The Heart of Darkness and the movie Apocolypse Now. ...

Age of Enlightenment and Religious Views on God?

In eight pages this paper discusses the Ages of Reason and Enlightenment in a consideration of how God was viewed by the Jewish an...

Reason Plus Spirituality Equals Enlightened Theology

Jonathan Edwards succeeded in defining both his physical and spiritual universes through sense and affection, an entirely new conc...

European Enlightenment and Literature

concept was that the scientific method was capable of discovering the laws of human society as well as those of nature, consequent...

Eighteenth Century Age of Enlightenment and Politics

out to apply the critical method to the problem of government in The Spirit of Laws (1748). The result was a complex comparative s...

Contemporary Thinking and the Influence of Existentialism, Romanticism, and the Enlightenment

In five pages this report explores how the schools of philosophical thought that characterized the Enlightenment have influenced c...

Immanuel Kant, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Locke and Adam Smith on the Enlightenment

In 5 pages this paper examines the Enlightenment contributions made by Kant regarding morality concepts, Wollstonecraft regarding ...

'Enlightened' Satire of Voltaire and Jonathan Swift

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Swift and Voltaire satirized 18th century Enlightenment philosophies in their literary works. ...

Evolution of Art During the Enlightenment

In five pages this paper discusses how classical art and its balance, simplicity, and order evolved during the Enlightenment era. ...

Enlightenment Ideals and Military Theory

In twenty five pages this research paper examines how late 18th century military theory was profoundly influenced by the Enlighten...

Eras of Enlightenment and Romanticism

The text suggests that waking and daylight are most conducive to logical thought. Popes analysis of mans position in the chain of ...

Jean Jacques Rousseau and Charles Montesquieu

doing whatever one wants, with no regard to law (Krause, 2000). If independence must be sacrificed in order to achieve political ...

European Enlightenment, Women and Men

seem to discuss how she is a gift perhaps, sent from some higher power. This would indicate that she is perhaps thought to be beau...

Defining Judicial Review Throughout History

civil and criminal courts, all lawsuits were treated as civil suits (Long). The victim prosecuted the case rather than any legal r...

Enlightenment Attack of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

frightening lack of individuality. This is also exemplified in society today. Was he correct? Is the world turning the people into...

German Enlightenment and Faust by Goethe

argued that the German Enlightenment served as the beginning of unique aspirations and an original quest for truth. The journey t...

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Maximilien Robespierre

In five pages this research paper discusses Maximilien Robespierre's political writings and the Declaration of the Rights of Man i...

American and French Revolutions' Similarities and Differences

come forth, but in France, the people just rocked the boat and lasting change would only come about through time. Yes, the extraor...

Progress and Ideals of the Enlightenment

and the second seeks to "alter the self-understanding of groups which have been defined in negative ways by a dominant culture" (L...

The Plague and Its Effects on European Society

course, plague was known so the deaths were not completely unexpected, but the disease interrupted lives, and no one knew who woul...

The Common Philosophies of the American and French Revolutions

Introduction The period of western civilization that we typically refer to as the Enlightenment spanned the...

Enlightenment Views of the Reason vs. Emotion in Phadra by Jean Racine

reason for his hasty departure - his forbidden love for Aricia, the lone surviving member of the royal family Theseus defeated. A...

The Healing Applications of the Hypnotic Technique

Hypnosis is sometimes regarded more as a parlor trick than as an effective approach to influencing human behavior and...

Frederick II

and Frederick II never loved her or cared about her in the least. Frederick William I died at the end of May in 1740. At that tim...

Seventeenth Century Influence on the Eighteenth Century

speeches in his position of Secretary of the Paris Academy of Sciences, in which he did a great deal to enhance both the cultural ...

Women Viewed During the Enlightenment Era

nature. De Gouges (2003) looks at the same natural world and challenges Enlightenment philosophers to give her an example in natur...

Questioning the Past in Literature of the Enlightenment

It seems ludicrous to picture a womans toilette as dangerous, yet the humor, in part, derives from the fact that men of this era a...

Voltaire's Candide and Literature of the Enlightenment

it from a cavalry captain," etc. (Voltaire, 1995, p. 9). This "genealogy," also subtly parodies the numerous "beget" clauses of t...

Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution

the flow of information. Prior to the effects of the printing press, it was relatively easy for the Church to suppress books and w...