Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity and invented many items which we still use today, including the lightning rod and bifocals, and immensely influenced Thomas Malthus’ rule of population growth. These discoveries, developments, inventions, and theories would play an immense role in the common Ind...
In the field of education, Locke is significant both for his general theory of knowledge and for his ideas on the education of youth. Locke’s empiricism, expressed in his notion that ideas originate in experience, was used to attack the doctrine that principles of reason are innate in the ...
2.1 The American dream in Autobiography Autobiography is one of his best works that is still very popular and can be read today. It shows Benjamin Franklin as a man of versatile energy and new ideas, a man who represented American enlightenment and the fulfillment of American dream. “It is...
an original work with new and explosive anti-Christian ideas couched in a vivid prose, contains many passages directly translated from or inspired by Shaftesbury. The proceeds of this publication, as of his allegedly indecent novelLes Bijoux indiscrets(1748), were used to meet the demands of his...
That is, as we know, the French Revolution, which starts in 1789 partly inspired, at least the intellectuals partly inspired by Rousseau's ideas developed to such a point, the French Revolution, unlike the American Revolution, went through as you may know several stages of increasing radicalism...
(Wedgwoodpioneeredmanytechniquesofmass-producedpottery;WedgwoodfinechinaandpotteryarestillproducedtodayTheSentimentalityofRuralRomanceJean-BaptisteGreuze,TheVillageBrideLouvre,Paris,1761TheEnlightenmentAndItsLegacyFigure28-6ThisisGreuze’smostpopularwork,asitsumsupthegenreofthesentimentalnarrativeofaruralromance.The...
Updated Webster’s dictionaries are still standard today. Philip Freneau’s (1752-1832) was known as "the poet of the American Revolution". His major themes are death, nature, transition, and the human in nature. All of these themes become important in 19th century writing. All the while....
Eastern Churches following the Julian Calendar observe the Theophany feast on what for most countries is January 19[10] because of the 13-day difference today between that calendar and the generally used Gregorian calendar. note with interest The date of celebration for St. Widukind is in ...
The Constitution of the United States, first drafted in 1787, is the oldest written constitution in the world and is still in operation as the fundamental basis of the United States government today. The enduring power of this eighteenth century document is undoubtedly based upon its thoroughness ...
(Untergang) of the West. Similarities between the ideas of Kissinger and Spengler are far from coincidental, not least because the latter was the subject of the former’s honors thesis at Harvard. Titled “The Meaning of History: Reflections on Spengler, Toynbee, and Kant,” the thesis ...