Scottish Enlightenment

Enlightenment Era The Enlightenment Era was a period in the 1600-1800s where educated Europeans changed the way they looked at life to see enlightenment which was progress. Another name for this era was Age of Reason. This era challenged not only the way you look at life but your beliefs. The philosophers in this time period wanted to use ideas not only for the scientific revolution but to find and solve the problems within government and society. Europeans changed the outlook on not only life,…

Defiance Against Enlightenment Philosophers Writer and advocate for women's rights during the height of the Enlightenment period, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote several novels and articles highlighting the injustices women faced during the 18th century. While one of Mary Wollstonecraft's most notable pieces of writing, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, may seem to parallel Enlightenment philosopher ideals, it in fact, has no correlations. Mary Wollstonecraft cannot be considered an Enlightenment…

The neoclassic artistic style began about the same time as the start of the age of enlightenment in the mid 18th century. Neoclassical art favored the simplicity and symmetry of Ancient Greece and Rome and viewed the Rococo style it displaced as immoral. Neoclassical artists thought art should be more cerebral and less sensual and viewed drawing as more important than painting. Neoclassical art with its strong lines, muted colors, and lack of visible brush strokes create images which appear to…

was undergoing drastic movements such as the Protestant Reformation and the Enlightenment. These movements significantly impacted a citizen’s relationship with their government, how they practiced religion, and their overall perception of the role and capabilities of institutions. Not only were these new ideas present in Europe, but they also diffused to colonies such as America. During the period 1607 to 1754, Enlightenment philosophy influenced Americans politically by causing colonists to…

The French Revolution was a time of reckoning, blood shed, clashing beliefs, and chaos. With the French people overthrowing the Monarchy and execution of French aristocracy including King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette. This time period is such mixture for the arts. With the flamboyant and dream like Rococo style representing all the luxury that Royalty where having while leaving the French people to starve, artists started looking for new styles to lead the way of the Revolution.…

Some historians may analyze the Louisiana Purchase and argue that when Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France, he altered the shape of a nation and the course of history. However, there is considerable evidence that shows that the Louisiana Purchase influenced the United States Ideas and policies of citizenship by challenging the social hierarchy, bringing groups together, and establishing a democracy over all of the United States. The addition of the Louisiana territory…

Question 1: In The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as mass deception, Adorno and Horkheimer are observing the culture industry. The culture industry is the entire system of production and circulation that establishes mass, mainstream, and popular culture. In this essay, the authors illustrate more precisely the relationship between culture industry and reality by explaining that “[r]eal life is becoming indistinguishable from the movies. The sound film, […], leaves no room for imagination or…

- I have selected Neoclassical architecture to be the inspiration of my artwork, which stemmed from the Neoclassical art period, and the beginning of neoclassical art was witnessed in the middle of the 18th century, and as of the literal definition of the word, it means revival of the old past which in this case was the classical art. In addition to most art periods of that time it was centralized in Europe but the Neoclassical period spread around the world as a global art movement. This also…

A big question I had while I was researching was what country did the Enlightenment happen, well the answer was in France which now that i think about France would be a an ideal place for the main part to happen. The Enlightenment happened all around europe but the main place would have been France.The Enlightenment took place everywhere the Enlightenment influenced a lot of people and countries the Enlightenment influenced so many things it is hard to count, some of the biggest things they…

Maurice Duplessis was the leader of the Québec political party Union Nationale. The Union Nationale introduced the Fleurdelisé verifying the main idea of the party which was to increase French culturalism. The Union Nationale spoke the words of the French Canadian and emphasized the importance of the French culture. Words of the French Canadians were often ignored because the English Canadian had more population so they had more say. Union Nationale tired to increase the importance of the…