What changed the way we think?
Kaitlyn Huff
HIST 110-07
Professor Geraghty
October 15, 2014
The changing of the human intellect during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries can be contributed to multiple aspects that were seen during those time periods. There are three aspects in particular that can be said to have the most significant role in changing the way individuals of those times thought and their daily life, in general - royal societies, coffee-houses, and salons.
The intellect level was low, not many attended school and the ones who did attend school were mostly from the higher up class of society. Everyone followed and went by what was told to them by the King or the church. They had no reason to think otherwise …show more content…
During the time when the first coffee-houses came about, they were not really businesses. They weren’t open during the day to only sell coffee, they were also meeting places, places for people to talk to one another about anything, and stock markets as well as a number of other things. A man could save money by going to the coffee-house, he would get his news and coffee in the same place. Bonnie Calhoun says this about why people would come to coffee-houses, “It was not for the taste of coffee that people flocked to these establishments… It was, in fact, the nature of the institution itself that caused its popularity to skyrocket during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries” (Calhoun 75-76). The coffee-house gave a social atmosphere that no place else had ever given the people of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Man is considered to be a sociable creature and where else is better for him to get his information from than another man. The coffee-house is a great place for man to get his knowledge because there a bundle of different men there with varieties of knowledge that can …show more content…
Men and women were both welcomed to salons, however they had to obtain knowledge in order to come in. They gave people an escape of the outside world where they could come and enjoy different forms of entertainment. Salons were serious and filled with intellect, this lead them to being considered more important to the growth of the human intellect. However, with the fact that women were allowed in salons, some argued that salons didn’t help the human intellect at all. Women were smart, but they couldn’t be considered intelligent based on the reason that they weren’t allowed to continue on with school after the primary level, so they couldn’t help rise the intellect level because they couldn’t raise their
Kaitlyn Huff
HIST 110-07
Professor Geraghty
October 15, 2014
The changing of the human intellect during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries can be contributed to multiple aspects that were seen during those time periods. There are three aspects in particular that can be said to have the most significant role in changing the way individuals of those times thought and their daily life, in general - royal societies, coffee-houses, and salons.
The intellect level was low, not many attended school and the ones who did attend school were mostly from the higher up class of society. Everyone followed and went by what was told to them by the King or the church. They had no reason to think otherwise …show more content…
During the time when the first coffee-houses came about, they were not really businesses. They weren’t open during the day to only sell coffee, they were also meeting places, places for people to talk to one another about anything, and stock markets as well as a number of other things. A man could save money by going to the coffee-house, he would get his news and coffee in the same place. Bonnie Calhoun says this about why people would come to coffee-houses, “It was not for the taste of coffee that people flocked to these establishments… It was, in fact, the nature of the institution itself that caused its popularity to skyrocket during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries” (Calhoun 75-76). The coffee-house gave a social atmosphere that no place else had ever given the people of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Man is considered to be a sociable creature and where else is better for him to get his information from than another man. The coffee-house is a great place for man to get his knowledge because there a bundle of different men there with varieties of knowledge that can …show more content…
Men and women were both welcomed to salons, however they had to obtain knowledge in order to come in. They gave people an escape of the outside world where they could come and enjoy different forms of entertainment. Salons were serious and filled with intellect, this lead them to being considered more important to the growth of the human intellect. However, with the fact that women were allowed in salons, some argued that salons didn’t help the human intellect at all. Women were smart, but they couldn’t be considered intelligent based on the reason that they weren’t allowed to continue on with school after the primary level, so they couldn’t help rise the intellect level because they couldn’t raise their