SOC231H5 Chapter : What is the Enlightenment.docx
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Catholic churches were the main targets: the ideas of the enlightenment have had a major impact on culture, politics, and governments of the western world, the scientific revolution is closely tied to the enlightenment as its discoveries overturned many traditional concepts and introduced new perspectives on nature and man"s place within it, there was a rise of capitalism and a birth of socialism. Two parts: general will women, the legislative power within the state, the sovereign, which consists of the whole population including, common good or common interest, example:
