DYLYN JANE R.

GALLEGO
BSED SOCSTUD 3-A
WORLD HISTORY 2
ENLIGHTENMENT EVALUATION

1. In your opinion, which are the two most important enlightenment ideas?
Support your answers with reasons.
 During the Age of Enlightenment, it was believed that human
reason could uncover truths about the world, religion, and
politics and apply them to better the lot of humanity. Another
crucial idea was to be skeptical of conventional wisdom;
everything should be put to the test and analyzed logically.
Enlightenment ideals included religious tolerance and the
freedom from coercion in one's personal affairs and conscience.
2. Which of the enlightenment ideas are reflected in the US Bill of Rights?
 The constitution reflected enlightenment mistrust of strong
central governments. In order to provide a built-in system of
checks and balances that would prevent any one branch from
acquiring too much power, it established three distinct branches
of government. Additionally, it established a federal system that
allocates authority between the federal government and state
governments. The distrust of strong central governments that
the enlightenment expressed was also reflected in the bill of
rights. It was incorporated into the constitution to safeguard
each citizen's rights. It defends fundamental freedoms that
enlightenment thinkers regarded as essential, like the right to
free speech and the right to practice one's religion.

Reporter’s Evaluation
1. What is Enlightenment in your own understanding?
 It alludes to the brain's more advanced cognitive abilities. It
describes a category or component of thought, particularly
abstract thought and the capacity for abstract thought. This
movement promoted using reason to reexamine the social norms
and conventional wisdom of the time. The age of light that
followed the enlightenment marked a significant turning point in
western civilization.
2. Choose at least two Philosophers from the various Enlightenment thinkers
mentioned and discuss their ideas and contributions.
a) A social contract between the people and their government was
the true foundation of government, according to John Locke. The
government might be overthrown if it didn't respect the rights of
its citizens. He introduced the concept of the "tabula rasa or the
blank state," which suggests that a person's mind is empty and
that everything he learns comes from experience.
b) Thomas Jefferson argued in favor of "self-determination" also
known as the right of the people to self-govern rather than be
subject to outside authority. All people have the inherent right to
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, which is one of his
ideas. All men are created equal.