18th Century Enlightenment, Music, And Hunter's Surgery

The 18th century Enlightenment is the first time ever in history that people have been encouraged to question authority. This way of questioning the status quo is what lead to great strides in our understanding of science, culture, philosophy, music, and many more things that we take for granted today. The common theme between all of our readings (Including Locke’s philosophy, Beethoven’s music, and Hunter’s surgery) is that they had never been done before; revolutionary in their school of thought. At the same time, there were others like them who were also making revolutionary discoveries about their interests. No longer was there the idea of blind worship of God of the Middle Ages, but the beginning of worship of God along with logic and reason. Not only that, but for the first time, people believed that there could be happiness and purpose in this

At the core of the enlightenment, there exists two contradictory values: freedom and order. These values are so important to the base of the Enlightenment, but at the same time so different. While Kant talks about Freedom through internal order, Locke talks about inalienable rights that we all have. In some ways, these two ideas can go hand in hand, but at the same time, they can contrast each other. While analyzing the feuds of Schama and Stone, and Harold and Roberts, we get an idea of each individual’s take of how the Enlightenment affected our modern world.
Emmanuel Kant considered himself a citizen of the world before he considered himself a citizen of Konigsberg, Prussia. His main belief was that we must unite internationally as a human race. Although this is true, he was opposite of Napoleon in the idea that we must be united under a