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Enlightened Questioners, Philosophers

Uploaded by surfchick on Feb 21, 2005

Enlightened Questioners

The men, who made the enlightenment happen, questioned the morals of the society they were in. The men in the concept of Truth and modern thought questioned the basics they were taught. Men from the Modern thought era, would have probably not been able to pioneer without the men from the enlightenment, but used their theories, as a playground for the ideas of the Modern Thought Era, and changed every law known to man.

Philosophers such as Locke and Voltaire had the same exact same ideas as some modern thinkers, except that they applied them to society. Voltaire for example criticized the church, and the old regime. Fredrich Nietzsche also believed in how many problems there were in any structured conventionally. The only difference that they had, is that Voltaire believed in a constitutional monarchy. The times were also changing then, the government's were becoming more and more liberal, while in Nietzsche's time, and the government was still liberal and not developing much. Voltaire called the church, "The Infamous Thing", while Nietzsche said "God Is dead", showing how much each hated the church. Nietzsche was a bit more explicit in his work, covering many topics, while Voltaire basically wrote, and or fought against the church, and for the English government, as well as Aristocracy of Talent. A philosophe that Nietzsche would not like especially would be Cessare Beccaria, because he set more standards in the Police "system", but tried to make the church step down from the police judgment affairs.

Someone who would get along with Cesare Becaria, even though he radicalized a different subject, would have been Charles Darwin. He also believed that the church should step down, but step down from the theory of evolution. Darwin said that "man and ape evolved from the same common ancestor" meaning that God had no hand in the development of man. While Beccaria, stated "Much of current punishment is based on original sin, and that sin would be dealt with in the afterlife, so the criminals should only serve the half of the punishment on Earth. Darwin believed that God made man into man, was a man made taboo, just like Beccaria believed that the crime equaled the absence of law which equaled a social construct. While the only way Darwin affected society, besides the shock that God had not created man, was applied by Social Darwinism. Social Darwinism applies to the...

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Date:   02/21/2005

Category:   Philosophy

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