In the Age of Enlightenment, people's ideals were being pushed from elementary to secondary, meaning they took the knowledge and culture they had cultivated in the Renaissance and expanded on these ideals. Past ages had been the basis of the progress made in the Restoration era, progress in science, art, and reasoning alike. One great thinker, by the name of John Locke challenged the Renaissance values of reputation and patronage. Locke believed that people are naturally free and have equal rights when it comes to liberty, property, and actions. This goes against all Renaissance ideals concerning people's place in society and class. Locke believed you shouldn't be constrained in this way. Writers criticized past social norms including the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who is considered one of the founding fathers of modern literature. He was a pioneer in the way that he expressed his ideas: mainly those concerning human nature and the way in which people behave. Through these writers and thinkers we are given a look into the way people's ideals were developing and becoming more complex.
Evelyn Ashleigh, Nick Hudson, Bennett Kopperud, Anne Kitchens
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Your synthesis shows evidence of research yet never delves into any particulars of Locke's ideas, the Enlightenment culture, or even, as reference, those of the Renaissance. Although the syntax is mainly error free, the synthesis feels like it was written in an elementary, rather than a secondary manner. Such conveyances, like that parodied, are vague and without substance in the writing, showing no real understanding of Enlightenment ideas. Ideals are listed, though never delved into. Locke is listed, though his ideas left unexplained, and left as simply contrary. Although the synthesis did well to complete the bare bones of the prompt in a straightforward approach, it lacks any real feel, more like a lazy computerized output than a coalition of ideas.
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