Writing Assignment--Learning Module 3

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Writing Assignment - Learning Module 3

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Writing Assignment - Learning Module 3

The impact of enlightenment ideas on 18th century revolutions

There is no unanimous agreement with regard to the impact , which new ideas produced on the emergence of revolutionary moods in Europe and America . Mahoney Mahoney (2007 ) are confident that there is no casual relationship between the philosophies of the Enlightenment and the outbreak of European revolutions . Jacob (2006 ) on the contrary links democratic revolutions

of the 18th century to enlightened beliefs The truth is in that the Enlightenment period is fairly regarded as the period of dramatic rational changes , which were not limited to science but covered considerations of politics , democracy , and individual freedoms . It should be noted , that of Enlightenment ideas in their pure form promoted the need for revolution nor did Enlightenment vote for violence . Simultaneously , philosophers and thinkers at that period were increasingly interested in changing the then political and social in a way that would expand the range of individual freedoms and would position individual will and democratic laws as the basis for social reconciliation and economic benefit in society

In one of his works , Rousseau wrote : just as nature gives each man absolute power over all his limbs , the social pact gives the body politic absolute power over its members (Jacob , 2006 as a result where individuals refused to obey the laws of absolute monarchy , they had to seek...