enlightenment
The Enlightenment brings two images to mind, one positive and one negative. The positive image is of a period when people in Europe became less bigoted, more secular-minded, more modern and sensible. In other words, it was time when people finally wised up and became more like us in our time. A more negative image also exists. The Enlightenment was a movement of headstrong intellectuals who tried to reduce everything to reason, who believed that society could be quickly remade and significantly improved under the right leadership. The Enlightenment period was a movement that greatly rejected Christianity in a since that reason was more to be learned than just faith. Christianity had provided a spiritual home for thinkers, activist, and hypocrites; a wide variety of causes and interests had linked themselves with it, causes and interest that not only differed from one another but also were actually incompatible. So why the change in thinking with reason instead of faith around 1700? Why did Christianity lose its grip on intellectual people at this time? Some reasons suggest why the periods changed in the 1700s. One is the continuing love affair with classical iniquity. It is possible that classical learning was more widespread
John Locke was born of average wealth in Somerset, England. He was well educated at Oxford and was taught Aristotle's style of philosophy. Locke's works leave much impact on us even today. Locke philosophies have influenced political science and philosophy on the basis that our ideas come from experiences the mind has no innate ideas. Locke believed that innate ideas were not part of the mind at birth. Locke believed that people have certain rights such as liberty, life, and ownership of property. He also believed that the ruler of a country or nation is a right of the people, and if the people do not like the ruler, they have the to find another one. Locke was one of very few philosophers who believed in God during the Enlightenment period. As we bask in the free sunny skies of our own country you should thank John Locke for his writings strongly influenced Thomas Jefferson in writing the Declaration of Independence, which was the base of starting our country. The simple thoughts that ran through Locke's mind during his time can easily be translated to our time in the since that common sense is needed to work with complex procedures. Locke was ahead of his time and took the period a step further than it was initially intended to do. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In England, the
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