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opening day of the enlightenment
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1.Natural Science and reason can explain all aspects of life.
2.The Scientific Method can explain the laws of human society.
3.Progress – the creation of better societies and better people – is possible.
1.Secular (often in conflict with churches – reason rather than faith was important)
2.Impacted Urban Middle Class and Aristocracy
3.Urban Poor and Peasants were unaffected (more worried about survival)
Philosophe
A person whose reflections were unhampered by constraints of religion or dogma.
1.Critical of nobility and clergy
2.Freedom, Individuality, & Social Improvements
3.Question Human Nature
4.Question Government