Restoration Of The Arts, Sciences, And Their Effect On Morals

Restoration of the Arts, Sciences, and Their Effect on Morals
Does the restoration of the sciences and arts destroy morality? This is what Rousseau talks about in his discourse, which argues about how arts and sciences corrupt morality of humans. The age of Enlightenment was a great time for progressing. Based on reasons and progress, many things has changed during the age of Enlightenment. One of the very important changes in the age of enlightenment was the Scientific Revolution. The Scientific Revolution was the emergence of modern science. It involved education and especially arts and the other sciences. What Jean Jacques Rousseau thinks is that people are no longer independent with the involvement of education. They instead depend on
So, what he thought is that the arts and sciences had made life complicated. To him people are not acting like how they really used to, back before the age of Enlightenment. What he want from people is to show their natural way. He wants people to show their real faces, their real personalities. People are showing their nice sides on the outside and hiding the ugly sides of them by the mean of education . They show their outside in a way and their inside is totally different from that of the outside. People would be more comfortable to see their surroundings act the same on the outside and the inside. Before Scientific Revolution people were more natural than how they are now with education. However, before the Scientific Revolution people could not do most of the things that we can do, today. The sciences that are studied in the Scientific Revolution are based on reasons. With development of reasons, people would develop their minds and their thinking skills would increase. So, we would then be able to make choices based on reasons, based on what would be good for us to choose because we now think of the things we would choose more and we will not have random answers to
With development of education, people would doubt everything and they would forget about simplicity. Before the Scientific Revolution, people knew nothing about education, so they did not doubt things, they would think of everything simply without complication, but now with the development of sciences and arts people tend to doubt almost everything and have reasons based on their thoughts. But does not a good education make the world much more easier? Now, with the arts and sciences we can do almost everything easier than they used to be back at the time. Education actually guides people to good manners. It teaches us things we never knew about, before. It widens the way of our thinking and make us smarter. Without education we would not know how to behave nicely in public. Without education our minds would stick to one thing that we think we are good at. So, even if the thing is bad, you would still stick to it because you do not have other choices. Being a terrorist is an example of this.Terrorists are the less educated classes. You can hardly find one that is a terrorist with a good degree of education. So, they only do what they have and do not explore things. What makes you explore things is education. The way it teaches you new things make you be more curious than ever. So, with education you would do anything to be a better human