With the new ideas of the Enlightenment being popularized, Europeans began to take different views that usually contrasted previous ways of thinking, including different takes on religion, open-mindedness and rejection of human rights, and exploring different ways of thinking about everything else. With the success and praise of these up-and-coming ideas, many others were inspired to learn about and come up with their own resulting in a plethora of new knowledge that modernized Europe to this day. Being a staple in the European mind for ages previously, new ideas about religion largely affected it’s place in society, including the way people looked at it. The Enlightenment was inspired by religious endeavors to begin with, for example Copernicus’s
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John Locke’s philosophy included the idea of an impressionable brain being the result of experiences. With this idea, he presses education to shape minds, and claims in document 2 that nine tenths of people are made useful by their education, and with education making impressions on the mind, it can change mankind for the good. Women have always been the exception to these ideas about education, now using biology to assert their passiveness, just like with slavery. In document 4 a woman herself, blame a “false sense of education” written by men considering woman as essentially sex objects when in fact, they “ought to cherish a nobler ambition.” Being a writer and philosopher, she practices what she preaches and is able to get down to the root of the problem. Overall, anyone who was a man and had made scientific discoveries were usually praised, by everyone except for the church. The tomb of Sir Isaac Newton exemplifies this, and whoever created it was clearly wanting to celebrate him through an extravagant tomb with large size and lavish
New ideas about religion had caused people to doubt …show more content…
John Locke’s philosophy included the idea of an impressionable brain being the result of experiences. With this idea, he presses education to shape minds, and claims in document 2 that nine tenths of people are made useful by their education, and with education making impressions on the mind, it can change mankind for the good. Women have always been the exception to these ideas about education, now using biology to assert their passiveness, just like with slavery. In document 4 a woman herself, blame a “false sense of education” written by men considering woman as essentially sex objects when in fact, they “ought to cherish a nobler ambition.” Being a writer and philosopher, she practices what she preaches and is able to get down to the root of the problem. Overall, anyone who was a man and had made scientific discoveries were usually praised, by everyone except for the church. The tomb of Sir Isaac Newton exemplifies this, and whoever created it was clearly wanting to celebrate him through an extravagant tomb with large size and lavish