Dun During The Enlightenment Analysis

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When our class was doing the Island Scenario Thought Experiment, it was difficult deciding what would be what, but then after a while of thinking, idea soon came to our minds. It showed me how much thinking and planning you really have to do in order for you to form a government and regulate it. You have to decide who will do this or that task or job without much conflict. In order to form a functioning government, everyone has to come to an agreement of exactly how things will run. What rules or laws will be put into place so no one comes out of their place. If they do, there will be consequences for them. Form jobs that makes everyone active so no one feels someone is getting more than someone else. That way a government and society can form by being built. People have to decide where the location will be with what kind of structure it will have. Also form a culture within the structure that everyone can go by. …show more content…

The Enlightenment thinkers formed ideas bigger than the government. The Enlightenment changed the world for the better. The most important figures in the Enlightenment were the Enlightenment thinkers.These individuals changed the world in the way the world operated. By them speaking for what they believe, allowed others to take a stand for what they believe. By one change being recognized, the whole world soon followed. During the Enlightenment, European politics, philosophy, science and communication radically re-oriented during the course of the long 18th century. It was the Enlightenment thinkers that changed the way individuals viewed certain ideas. They questioned traditional authority and embraced the notion that humanity could be improved to rational change. This was with books, essays, inventions, and laws. Without the central ideas and figures of the Enlightenment, our country would have been drastically different since these concepts shape the country in its formative years(Smith