1.Which events were influenced by enlightenment thinkers?

The movement helped create the intellectual framework for the American and French Revolutions, Poland’s Constitution of May 3, 1791, the Latin American independence movement, the Greek national independence movement and the later Balkan independence movements against the Ottoman Empire, and led to the rise of classical liberalism, democracy, and capitalism

2.What is a real world example of a social contract?

The term social contract describes a broad class of philosophical theories whose subject is the implied agreements by which people form nations and maintain a social order. In laymen’s terms this means that the people give up some rights to a government in order to receive social order.

Example of social contracts:

1. Marriage and family. Marriage automatically invokes serious long term commitments for most people. Families, including children, need emotional and financial support. Children need nurture and in general “to be raised.” By default, children are also responsible to the agreement, and the state has to respect the authority of the family. You typically shouldn’t marry a person who won’t agree to a commitment to these responsibilities. Things often go wrong. One partner or a child gets a serious disease or has a serious debilitating accident. The other partner has to carry a greater load because of it. People can’t just walk away because the going gets tough, or because their parents don’t have enough money or follow certain practices.

3.What is the main purpose of the separation of powers?

Under this model the state is divided into branches, and each branch of the state has separate and independent powers and areas of responsibility. The normal division of branches is into the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial.

It protects democracy and forestalls tyranny; opponents of separation of powers, such as Professor Charles M. Hardin[3] have pointed out that, regardless of whether it accomplishes this end, it also slows down the process of governing, it promotes executive dictatorship and unaccountability, and it tends to marginalize the legislature.

4.Many Enlightenment philosophers attempted to explain the purpose of government. What was the counterpart to the Enlightenment in the study of the physical world?

The Enlightenment is often closely linked with the Scientific Revolution, for both movements emphasized reason, science, and rationality, while the former also sought their application in comprehension of divine or natural law. Inspired by the revolution of knowledge commenced by Galileo and Newton, and in a climate of increasing disaffection with repressive rule, The 19th century also saw a continued rise of empiricist ideas and their application to political economy, government and sciences such as physics, chemistry and biology.

We do that for each other. I’ve learned really early on that enlightenment is connected to affect. There is cause and affect here. So all the dynamics of a person’s personal journey are somewhere inside of the question and answers. I love it too when a piece that I have previously missed becomes known. Like an upgrade. Someone asked this wonderful question once about how you break down the barriers of self. Until then, I hadn’t worded it. Wording it brought on an understanding about the kind of beings that we are. However, you get to that point of limitlessness in your spirit. That behind the mind conscious knowing that something is just beyond the curtain. We’re still human’s expressing. That human expressing is like a whole other character outside of the awareness. If that character is not expanding in daily endeavors to affect reality in ways that bring development and maturity, it’s like putting a powerful engine in a broken down car. Sooner or later that body is going to interfer. Life matters. How you express it and who you are, matters. What your world reflect matters. It’s so that you can bring that heaven to earth. You expand your humanity, the inner understanding and the outer one become the same. From the inside out. So, a big YES to your question.