Candide worksheet Name: Huy Dang Khac The purpose of this assignment is to help you develop the critical thinking skills necessary to write a basic‚ college-level analytical essay. You may type directly into this file and then upload when finished. Remember that you need to connect what you read in the book to what you are learning from other course materials to complete you answers. Step I: Basic‚ factual analysis of a reading 1. List three examples of events/methods from Voltaire’s
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It could go without saying that the Enlightenment period was new and creative‚ very much different from the traditional aspects of the Catholic Church. “Instead‚ the Enlightenment thinkers developed a way of understanding the universe called Deism.[4]” “Perhaps no nation more proudly flaunts its secularism than France. The land that launched the millennium of Christendom by crowning Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor in 800 has morphed into a staunchly secularist state‚
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The Age of Enlightenment is a term used to describe the trends in thought and letters in Europe and the American colonies during the 18th century prior to the French Revolution. The phrase was frequently employed by writers of the period itself‚ convinced that they were emerging from centuries of darkness and ignorance into a new age enlightened by reason‚ science‚ and a respect for humanity. The precursors of the Enlightenment can be traced to the 17th century and earlier. They include the philosophical
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Wesley Scott February 12‚ 2011 M/W 2:30-3:45 Chapter 17 review questions 1. How did the enlightenment change basic Western attitudes toward the reform‚ faith‚ and reason? First it changed faith because it allowed people to worship anyway they please. The enlightenment set the stage for most of the ideas that are among us today. It also had the thinkers to attempt to discover the ration behind European government. What were the major formative influences on the philosophers? They had a strong
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speech and tolerance. 7. Isaac Newton was a man who was born in 1642. He was a scientist and he had a lot of theories. 8. René Descartes was a French philosopher and mathematician and was also as Isaac‚ working with theories. He was born 1596. 9. Deism is the belief that god took a step back after he created the world. He took
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Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography and Biography American Writers to 1865 Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography and Biography Benjamin Franklin starts his autobiography with “Dear Son‚ I have ever had a Pleasure in obtaining any little antecdotes of my Ancestors. You may remember the Enquires I made among the Remains of my relations when you were with me in England; and the journey I took for that purpose (Franklin‚ 1771‚ p. 231).” Franklin was sixty five when he started his autobiography
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The Romantic Era vs. The Enlightenment: The Ultimate Antithesis When we think back to the romantic era and the enlightenment‚ we create images of old philosophers and writers in the glow of a lamp trekking the way to the beliefs we rely on now by the edge of their pen. The noted people who started the ideals of America such as Locke‚ Voltaire‚ and Rousseau promoted equality for men‚ the free market‚ and that fact that we are created by our experiences. Perhaps we imagine those who blew our minds
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Darrell Johnson January 18‚ 2013 When I first volunteered to join to be a part of the first group for presentations‚ I must admit I was a bit nervous. Nervous due to the fact I did not know what I was about to get myself into. I have not participated in an English course in quite some time so my nerves began racing and my mind wandering what was I about to face. Our group started out with a total of four individuals‚ but now there are only three of us and we each are looking to pull this whole
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Voltaire was a French philosophe‚ and one of the most influential figures during the Enlightenment. Voltaire wrote over seventy volumes with a great variety of genres. His Enlightenment ideas were built on several essential elements---- senses‚ reason‚ emphasis on science‚ deist belief and a rationalized government. According to Enlightenment thinkers‚ senses were an essential element of their ideas. Human beings were capable of using their senses to observe the universe. By using their individual
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The Age of Enlightenment refers to the 18th century in European philosophy‚ and is often thought of as part of a larger period which includes the Age of Reason. The term also more specifically refers to a historical intellectual movement‚ "The Enlightenment." This movement advocated rationality as a means to establish an authoritative system of ethics‚ aesthetics‚ and knowledge. The intellectual leaders of this movement regarded themselves as courageous and elite‚ and regarded their purpose as leading
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