enlightenment

Did Enlightenment Thought Encourage Radical Change Or Gradual Reform?

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Did Enlightenment Thought Encourage Radical Change Or Gradual Reform? Did Enlightenment thought encourage radical change or gradual reform? Enlightenment thought encouraged radical change, because the ideas of the philosophes were unable to be achieved through gradual reform, and their thoughts were to reform societies and governments of entire countries on a large scale. How did

Which Ideas Of The Enlightenment Are Present Today?

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Which Ideas Of The Enlightenment Are Present Today? Wherever we look today in academia, scholars are rushing to defend the Enlightenment ideas of political and individual liberty, human rights, faith in scientific reason, secularism, and the freedom of public debate. Why the worry? These ideas are, after all, enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. How do