The Enlightenment Research Paper

This essay discusses about the following questions: What is the Enlightenment? What happened? Who were the important people involved? What did they do? Its effects, and how did all this start? , and at last we will be reflecting on the Enlightenment. As mentioned previously, let's start off with understanding what Enlightenment is, in order to understand what this whole topic is about. The Enlightenment was a European movement, which was based on finding new things by logic and reason(mostly science), this made up the other name for Enlightenment therefore called The Age Of Reason. It was amazingly influenced by the 17th century philosophers. The Enlightenment started either in the middle of the 17th century or at the commencement of the 18th century. The cause of it was the thirty years war from year 1618 to 1648. As we now know, the Enlightenment was significantly influenced by the 17th century philosophers, but which one of these philosophers started the Enlightenment? First of all, all philosophers who had a significant impact on the Enlightenment are Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, Locke, Descartes, and Adam Smith. Most importantly, the two philosophers who started the Enlightenment were Hugo Grotius, and John Comenius in Germany. Hugo Grotius, and John Comenius started the

Now a days, as we study science we learn about important scientists that profoundly influenced the world. For example, when we study about telescopes we talk about Galileo since he is the inventor of the telescope, and without it we wouldn't have known that there was a space and sun. When we study gravity we talk about Isaac Newton. So these scientists maybe passed away before the Enlightenment but had great influence on it by the things they discovered. As they also supported the Enlightenment by their