Many artists, writers and philosophers of the Enlightenment era expressed criticism with the emphasis of family connection and social status of the Renaissance and Medieval Era. The Enlightenment Era was the “age of reason” in which reason controls all aspects of daily life from the government to morals and even religion. There were rationalists, who thought reason was the sole basis of knowledge and empiricists who emphasized knowledge as an attribute that one gains through experience. John Locke, an empiricist states in The Reasonables of Christianity as Delivered in the Scriptures, that reason is always included even though miracles were stated in the Bible. Furthermore, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan and John Locke's The Two Treatises of Government fought against the notion of the “divine right of the kings” in which Hobbes states that the power is from the people while Locke focused on freedom and equality as a means for authority. Locke focused on the positive of “life, liberty, and property” as he discussed what everyone is entitled to in a world of intellectuals. In addition, music gained support from the public as Handel, Mozart, and other artists catered to the values of Enlightenment. Becoming more intelligent was a key component in the Age of Enlightenment from debates, literature, music and even science. Obtaining knowledge to forming reason would only be done if they explored new boundaries. Coffeehouses, were vital because philosophy, science, and politics were discussed between all sorts of people. The Enlightenment focused on the process of logic with facts.
Trent Kajikawa, Naomi Krieger, Daphne Liu, Wilson Muller
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