Literature Research
Darrell Johnson
January 18, 2013
When I first volunteered to join to be a part of the first group for presentations, I must admit I was a bit nervous. Nervous due to the fact I did not know what I was about to get myself into. I have not participated in an English course in quite some time so my nerves began racing and my mind wandering what was I about to face. Our group started out with a total of four individuals, but now there are only three of us and we each are looking to pull this whole thing together. Looking into the topics of the presentation, the enlightenment and humanism, I haven 't dived into those subjects before and was interested to find out and learn more about them. Being unfamiliar with my group partners, I didn 't know if they had any prior knowledge or experience with the enlightenment period or humanism. After meeting for the first time we all felt the same about the topics and were on common grounds about wanting to find out more.
Through the whole research process of the presentation, I look forward to find out a lot of information that I didn 't expect to find. Before research began I feel that one would think to define enlightenment as a way to look into something or situation differently and openness. Also with humanism one can look into it as an ideal of a realistic type look into life. I’m curious to know what I will find as I continue to dig deeper into these topics and logic 's. I think in order for me to have a greater understanding of the ideals of the enlightenment and humanism, I will need to look into things as if I was one of the enlightened a philosopher as one would say, such as Thomas Hobbes, Ben Franklin, and John Locke. It seems that there has to be a separation of ideals, one would have to choose sides to either believe in the spiritual or realistic happenings of life. In this paper I look to show a distinction of spiritual vs. realism, because the enlightenment period was a transition from spiritual
January 18, 2013
When I first volunteered to join to be a part of the first group for presentations, I must admit I was a bit nervous. Nervous due to the fact I did not know what I was about to get myself into. I have not participated in an English course in quite some time so my nerves began racing and my mind wandering what was I about to face. Our group started out with a total of four individuals, but now there are only three of us and we each are looking to pull this whole thing together. Looking into the topics of the presentation, the enlightenment and humanism, I haven 't dived into those subjects before and was interested to find out and learn more about them. Being unfamiliar with my group partners, I didn 't know if they had any prior knowledge or experience with the enlightenment period or humanism. After meeting for the first time we all felt the same about the topics and were on common grounds about wanting to find out more.
Through the whole research process of the presentation, I look forward to find out a lot of information that I didn 't expect to find. Before research began I feel that one would think to define enlightenment as a way to look into something or situation differently and openness. Also with humanism one can look into it as an ideal of a realistic type look into life. I’m curious to know what I will find as I continue to dig deeper into these topics and logic 's. I think in order for me to have a greater understanding of the ideals of the enlightenment and humanism, I will need to look into things as if I was one of the enlightened a philosopher as one would say, such as Thomas Hobbes, Ben Franklin, and John Locke. It seems that there has to be a separation of ideals, one would have to choose sides to either believe in the spiritual or realistic happenings of life. In this paper I look to show a distinction of spiritual vs. realism, because the enlightenment period was a transition from spiritual
Citations: Page LePoire, David. "BEN FRANKLIN: EARLY FUTURIST… AND MODEL FOR THE FUTURE?." n. page. Print Kelley, Donald. Renaissance Humanism. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991. Print. Lively, Jack. The Enlightenment. London: The Chaucer Press, 1966. Print.