Enlightenment In The 21st Century

During the late 1700’s tension in Europe ran high when it came to law punishments. In the popular death of Calas, a man was executed because he was blamed to have murdered his son because he wanted to convert to Catholicism. Although, that was not the case Calas was put to death in an extremely gruesome way. I cannot imagine watching this man being torn apart and tortured. This really shows you how little people cared for human dignity. As a result of his death, Voltaire pointed out the worries that he had with Europe’s Enlightenment. During the 18th century the economy took a growth especially in Europe. With this growth, food became cheaper and death from diseases began to decrease. Also, in places like Britain, farming technology improved …show more content…
In this so called Age of Enlightenment, many people shared the idea of that time being a period of change where others looked as it as a time where traditions and values were being thrown down the drain. I find it interesting how this kind of parallel’s with the 21st …show more content…
It is always interesting to find things in earlier history that fit so well to our time period now. The enlightenment first started as a common idea that the people were living in a very exciting place in history. Also, during this Enlightenment people used it as sort of an escape from ideals and essentially the Catholic Church. This gave individuals the freedom to think and do things for themselves without consulting the church about it. Even though most of the Enlightenment was taking place in Europe other places like France would essentially come up with many new Enlightenment ventures. One of the best known philosophers from this time was