The European Enlightenment

Part I of Essay
Researchers show came about as the result of the new natural science ideas of Isaac Newton, the political and social theories of great thinkers like Hobbes, and the psychology of John Locke. Much of Newton's thought comes from the thirteenth century science of men like Ga ....

Part II of Essay
.... state. Because this growth in absolute and centralized power of the government and the monarchy, this age is called the "Age of Absolutism" (1660-1789), beginning with Louis XIV and ending with the French Revolution. Crises and tragedies primarily motivated absolutism of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Absolute monarchies were originally proposed as a solution to the bloody civil and religious wars erupting as a result of the Reformation. These absolutists argued several important roles of the national government should solely ....