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...[competition]] and [[free will]]. It has its roots in the Western Age of [[The Enlightenment|Enlightenment]]. Because of its wide acceptance in modern Western world, it ...a history'' (Oxford, 1997) p. 802</ref> Its roots went further back, to [[The Enlightenment]] and beyond. Its first success was in the [[American Revolution]], though

...dsay, 31 March 1752, A. Smart, Allan Ramsay: painter, essayist, and man of the Enlightenment (1992), 96 n. 10 </ref> There were three surviving children, Amelia (1755&n

[[Benjamin Rush]], in [[The Enlightenment]], pushed bloodletting, strong and toxic laxatives such as [[calomel]] and

# The Rise of the Enlightenment

...ncluded the study of the classic authors, as well as the philosophers of [[The Enlightenment]], such as [[Montesquieu]], [[John Locke]] and [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]. A

#. The Rise of the Enlightenment

...deal of India as an Oriental paradise. Voltaire's motivation was primarily the Enlightenment attack on the Catholic Church and more specifically Voltaire's claim that m

...Crouter breaks the usual mold of interpreting it only as a Romantic text. The Enlightenment was for Schleiermacher more than just Kant, and emphasizing the degree to w

...r of the Hapsburg (Austrian) territories, was the arch-embodiment of the [[The Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] spirit of the later 18th-century reforming monarchs known a In the cities the new economic principles of the Enlightenment called for the destruction of the autonomous guilds, already weakened durin

...the traditions of the profession persevered through medieval Europe. When the Enlightenment brought progress in science and modern biology became established, medical

...e"''. This paved the way to the birth of a period which became known as ''"The Enlightenment Period"'', when profound changes took place in all of the social sciences,

:* Theoretical Biology is rooted in the times of the Enlightenment. However, it started to prosper only in this century. At the beginning, Joh

...tion in Europe and this democratic system helped cause its leading role in the Enlightenment and the [[Industrial Revolution]]. Historians have exploded the myth. Wes

* Casini, P. "Newton's Principia and the Philosophers of the Enlightenment." ''Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London'' 1988 42(1): 35-52. I

...ely exercising the rights and duties of citizenship. In keeping with the [[The Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] ideals present at the time of the Revolution, the purpose o

* Kelley, Donald R. ''Versions of History from Antiquity to the Enlightenment'' (1991) [http://www.amazon.com/Versions-History-Antiquity-Enlightenment-Do