basisoftheAmericanRevolution.AmericanRevolutionprovidedablueprintfortheorganizationofademocraticsociety.AmericanRevolutionwasanenlightenedconceptofgovernment.WhiletheEnlightenmentthinkinginEuropetookplaceinthesalonsinParis,thepracticalapplicationofthoseideaswascarriedoutmostvividlyintheAmericancolonies.BenjaminFranklin...
--- As a natural philosopher He represented the paradox of Puritan materialism and immateriality (idealism); His philosophical ideas are illustrated in his masterpiece, “Autobiography” : Puritanism and Enlightenment --- As a statesman He served as representative of the colonies in London for 18...
--- As a natural philosopher He represented the paradox of Puritan materialism and immateriality (idealism); His philosophical ideas are illustrated in his masterpiece, “Autobiography” : Puritanism and Enlightenment --- As a statesman He served as representative of the colonies in London for 18...
Under the influence of the European Enlightenment thought, the North American colonies Enlightenmen 翻译结果2复制译文编辑译文朗读译文返回顶部 翻译结果3复制译文编辑译文朗读译文返回顶部 Long before the independence of more than 100 years, European enlightenment ideas began to spread in North America, for...
Enlightenment and the Independence War (1765 -1800) I. Historical Background 1. The War ofIndependence •In the 1780s, the English colonies inNorth Americarose in arms against their mother country. The Independent War lasted for eight years (1775---1783) and ended in the formation of a ...
Spirituallifeofthecolonies—Enlightenment OriginatedinEuropeinthe17thcenturytousecriticalreasontofreemindsfromprejudice,authority,oppression.The18th-centuryAmericanEnlightenmentwasamovementmarkedbyanemphasisonrationalityratherthantradition,scientificinquiryinsteadofunquestioningreligiousdogma,andrepresentativegovernmentinplaceof...
The Enlightenment was a period of scientific and social progress where rationality and reason became the analytical lenses for scrutinising all levels of society. However, until the end of the eighteenth century, the focus on logic, reason and cognition
A vast expansion abroad of British colonies in Asia, Africa and North America. The enlightenment movement It refers to the movement of intellectual liberation that developed in Western Europe from the late 17th century to the late 18th (often called as the “Age of Reason”). A continuation ...
the realm of science, but in the general realm of public affairs. The principle behind the Age of Reason was that through the application of human intellect, reasonable decisions could be made about how people and nations were to conduct their business. Societies could be restructured for the ...
The publishing history of Maria Edgeworth's second novel, Belinda , registers the anxieties of a society intensely involved in debates over the abolition of slavery and the proper management of British colonies in the West Indies. By the time the novel went into its third edition in 1810, the...