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In this essay I will be discussing four of the major themes in this course in terms of progress, they will be religion, humanism, individualism and secularism. I will discuss these concepts within the countries of England, France, and Russia, and show my point of view on each. Religion was very dominant throughout the early history in England, especially during the 16th and 17th centuries. This started to change during the late 17th century, when people started focusing more on human reason rather than religion. One of the reasons that people started losing their faith in the church is because of how the bishops were picked, and how the church itself was generally deteriorating; they weren’t changing at all with the times. This allowed more religions to come forth, such as Calvinism. Most people turned to their country or state for their dominant influence in their lives. In the early 19th century to the early 20th century, Britain removed religious and political restric!tions from Dissenters and Catholics accepting them as citizens with equal rights. And as well, over this period of time, the influence of religion decreased even more so, especially with the governments. In the last 50 years, most churches are now voluntar
Individualism in the 19th and early 20th century spread wide abroad, and many countries were quite accepting of it. In the last while, last 50 years or so, few political or economical philosophies have any spiritual measurement. I believe that it is a good thing the way that individualism has gone, more freedom then we used to have in the 16th century. But if one were to do that then you would still not be doing it for the benefit of everyone but for the majority, which is what humanism is all about - benefit of the majority. The Co!de Napoleon preserved much of the rights gained by the revolution, but not of those of women and children. And in the 19th to early 20th century liberalism and socialism were both based upon humanist attit!udes. They both believed that people could solve their own problems and promote their own material progress without the need of a supernatural guidance. Individualism in the 19th to 20th century has drastically changed the ways of women. But either way I think individualism has gone a long way. Most constitutions granted during the 19th century, civil liberties based upon individual freedoms were guaranteed. In Russia religion’s influence was much different. Humanism was really great in my opinion because i!t was able to abolish insane things such as slavery, where people actually could be treated as people. Individualism in the 16th/17th century had a great emphasis on individual rights, such as guilds or feudal privileges, and also those individual political and legal rights must be guaranteed. There wasn’t much influence at all in the period of 1815 to 1919. But even though we pay taxes to the government, it doesn’t hurt our individualism, those taxes are there so we all pay for our roads and many other things.
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