The Enlightenment
Enlightenment throughout the world
As a student of Professor Pangloss’ Academy of Interesting Observations in Westphalia, I had the opportunity to study and understand the enlightenment in the prospect of a traveler. I had the opportunity to travel through France, the islands of the Caribbean and England and with the information’s collected in that trip, I will share with you some of the success and failures of the Enlightenment. In the eighteenth century in Europe, in response to Absolutism, a cultural, intellectual, political, economic, social and philosophical movement, called the Enlightenment, emerged. According to Immanuel Kant “Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed …show more content…
The crisis of the Old Regime was accompanied by a set of new philosophical and economic ideas that advocated a freedom of thought and an equality of all men before laws. The Factory Act of 1833 was a major accomplishment for the proper rights of child workers. With this act, “children who worked in factories would now be given more safe regulations” (12). Some of the new laws that would focus on the youth in the factories were only by means of reason did natural and social phenomena claim to be perfectly adequate. These ideas were based on rationalism. They advocated a democracy, economic liberalism and a freedom of worship and thought. In fact, the Enlightenment was a long process as the cultural transformations initiated in the Renaissance continued and extended throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As Enlightenment ideas influenced movements like an Independence of the United States and a French Revolution. The Enlightenment began in England, but was in France, which reached its greatest development. It was in France that lived the greatest Enlightenment thinkers, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Diderot and
As a student of Professor Pangloss’ Academy of Interesting Observations in Westphalia, I had the opportunity to study and understand the enlightenment in the prospect of a traveler. I had the opportunity to travel through France, the islands of the Caribbean and England and with the information’s collected in that trip, I will share with you some of the success and failures of the Enlightenment. In the eighteenth century in Europe, in response to Absolutism, a cultural, intellectual, political, economic, social and philosophical movement, called the Enlightenment, emerged. According to Immanuel Kant “Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed …show more content…
The crisis of the Old Regime was accompanied by a set of new philosophical and economic ideas that advocated a freedom of thought and an equality of all men before laws. The Factory Act of 1833 was a major accomplishment for the proper rights of child workers. With this act, “children who worked in factories would now be given more safe regulations” (12). Some of the new laws that would focus on the youth in the factories were only by means of reason did natural and social phenomena claim to be perfectly adequate. These ideas were based on rationalism. They advocated a democracy, economic liberalism and a freedom of worship and thought. In fact, the Enlightenment was a long process as the cultural transformations initiated in the Renaissance continued and extended throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As Enlightenment ideas influenced movements like an Independence of the United States and a French Revolution. The Enlightenment began in England, but was in France, which reached its greatest development. It was in France that lived the greatest Enlightenment thinkers, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Diderot and