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

a very different civil war, which ended in liberty. It was this event alone that may be seen as most significant by Voltaire. He...

In a paper of fifteen pages an examination of European history includes the Middle Ages, Baroque period, and The Enlightenment in ...

to have this freedom of religion; when ones religious practices are not allowed by choice but are instead dictated by an omnipoten...

the society has been "dumbed down." It does seem true that the masses rarely think for themselves. They vote by sound bite and for...

freedom of speech as well as to be able to use reason publicly in all matters without fear of retribution, is very important. It i...

Indeed, it seems that within the context of philosophy, there is a wrestling with religious thought, because it is from the rejec...

exaggeration. Voltaire (1947) is in fact sarcastic and while the author is indirect in the way in which he writes, it seems that t...

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

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...

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

workers actions. If he performed for himself, the worker would not feel alienated by his efforts. According to Marx, a great deal ...

and war, which he portrays as contrary to all reason. In the eighteenth century, war was presented to the ordinary citizens as an ...

in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...

is he doesnt necessarily find much of anything on the final journey. Though he finally adapts himself back to humanity following h...

science fiction, the reality is that the problem of labeling and drugging children in the world is growing. Of course, Freud wrote...

life, whereas before there was no tolerance of any other culture or lifestyle other than that of the Euro-centric Christian model....

from one epoch to another. The title symbolized customs of the past, but it could also be adapted to whatever future social or ec...

Roman feel to Michelangelos "Creation of Adam" that almost speaks of ancient Roman statues. In Medieval times such a piece of art ...

twenty-first century women have today. The matriarch after all has played a very different role in society over the past centuries...

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

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

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

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

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...

infuse his novel with educational motifs, reflecting the novels thematic notion that educational and scientific advancement are th...

new and more efficient shipping routes. The combined might of the Portuguese and Spanish holdings claimed during the Age of Explor...

Catholics and Protestants (then called Huguenots by the French), church and state were "imperfectly and precariously united" despi...

Comparing and contrasting the search for enlightenment in the works of Dante Alighieri and Hanshan in 4 pages. Primary sources on...

In five pages this paper examines what peasant life was like for a man who lived through the Enlightenment period as well as the I...