Scottish Enlightenment

Although Louis XIV’s reign branched towards despotism and collaboration via several of his methods, holistically, Louis XIV was an absolutistic leader. His ideology centered around “the divine ordination of monarchy; the king’s absolute grant of power from God; complete denial of the right of resistance; the indefeasibility of hereditary right; and the corroboration of coronation” (Fox 140). Paul Foxes writing on the theories that Louis XIV adhered to is notably valuable because Fox extracted…

The Age of Enlightenment does not have a formal date in pen as to when it began, but over the course of time, people began to change their way of understanding and thinking which started the enlightenment. What began the enlightenment was when people started to ask questions about the basic principles of the world, questions about parliament and math and science. Europeans didn’t want to continue their understanding unless they could accept all the basic principles of science and government as…

Throughout A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens uses symbolism to create meaning in the story and to establish a point. One of the most prominent and important symbols that is woven throughout the novel is the motif of the “echoes of footsteps coming and going” (103). However, these footsteps signify different ideas dependent upon where Lucie and the family are. In London, England, the footsteps are merely echoes of people who could someday enter the family’s lives, while in Paris, France, the family…

Following the French Revolution of 1789, political ideologies began to surface as a result of an increased chance to engage in political discourse, something that was rare outside of the Monarch’s court. As ideas of liberalism, an ideology with a focus on individual human rights began to surface, conservatives with the desire to maintain the Ancien Regime retorted with anti-nationalistic sentiment. In his speech “What is revolution?”, delivered in 1852, conservative Friedrich Julius Stahl…

evolved repeatedly, defining what people were like all throughout the different time periods. Two such era’s are the Romantic era of the eighteenth and nineteenth century and the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. Although they share many similarities, the Romantic era is often described as the antithesis to the Enlightenment because of the many…

An evolving cultural dialogue between political, philosophical, literary and social spheres greatly characterises the Utopian genre. Literary utopias negotiate the condition of modernity and ponder its implications for the future of mankind. For that reason alone, Utopia’s contemporaneity renders it a genre capable of adapting to the demands of time. Influential texts in the utopian dialectic are unique negotiations between Utopia, reality and the desires of the author. This is evidenced in…

John Hancock was a revolutionary, he was the first person to sign the declaration of independence, and he was one of the wealthiest people in massachusetts. He also got to name the United States of America, the act he was inspired by was the Tea Act. John hancock was best known as the first person to sign the declaration of independence, but there are also many things people did not know about him like he was one of the wealthiest people in massachusetts, when John was little his father…

happened that pushed the colonies in America towards the Revolutionary War, the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening. The Enlightenment that happened in the colonies stemmed from the Enlightenment that was also occurring in Europe, which was a movement to place a human’s capacity for reason above other factors of social status (Schultz, Mays, & Winfree, 2011). To basically summarize what was happening, at the time the Enlightenment as occurring the popular belief in society was still that of a…

The majority of France’s 25 million person population rose up and ended unfair ruling in France during the late 18th century. This was the French Revolution. “Ideas more than political or economic concerns, drove the French Revolution up to the summer of 1794.” is incorrect. This historical uprising was sparked by all of these principles at one point or another. The feudal system in France divided the country into three classes, or estates. The first estate was the clergy, who had massive…

The Enlightenment, an era of knowledge and new ideas, was a period of time where philosophes made many advancements.The Age of Reason (another name for the Enlightenment period) took place during the 17th and 18th century. Philosophers were hopeful to make advancements and better understand society. The main idea of the Enlightenment was to make discoveries on natural and individual rights. The main idea of philosophes was greater individual freedom. Philosophes were able to expand on the idea…