Declaration Of Rights Of Man During The Enlightenment
RESEARCH PAPER OF ENLIGHTENMENT
The Enlightenment was period of intellectual and growth. During the Enligtenment, people started to believe that all men were free people. The declaration of rights of Man states “men are born free and are equal in rights.” This was a new concept of that time. People had not thought about others as being equal. Everyone was equal and can live their lives according to their wishes, within certain guidelines. Enlightenment was a philosophical movement in 18th century Europe, characterized by belief in the power of human reason and by innovations in political, religious and educational doctrine.
This movement rejected social, traditional, political, and religious norms and values and adopted free thinking for development of new ideas and theories for human behavior and their feelings. These new ways were then applied to political and social boundries, changing the people views and thought about government, and directly …show more content…
In a state of nature, men are “Noble Savages”. It means that people are not born evil, but are corrupted by society and turned evil. Enlightenment thinkers viewed human nature in terms of a morally neutral tabula rasa, or blank slate, that could be molded in various ways. They applied the idea of a social tabula rasa, or state of nature, to explain how civil society might have emerged and ought to be governed. Many Enlightenment thinkers, such as Hobbes, the Marquis d’Argenson (1694–1757), Montesquieu (1689– 1755), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), argued that political stability could be guaranteed by organizing society as a machine in which each component worked in harmony with the rest. Still others, like Locke in his The Second Treatise of Government (1689), used the idea of a state of nature to define the boundaries of state power in guaranteeing political
The Enlightenment was period of intellectual and growth. During the Enligtenment, people started to believe that all men were free people. The declaration of rights of Man states “men are born free and are equal in rights.” This was a new concept of that time. People had not thought about others as being equal. Everyone was equal and can live their lives according to their wishes, within certain guidelines. Enlightenment was a philosophical movement in 18th century Europe, characterized by belief in the power of human reason and by innovations in political, religious and educational doctrine.
This movement rejected social, traditional, political, and religious norms and values and adopted free thinking for development of new ideas and theories for human behavior and their feelings. These new ways were then applied to political and social boundries, changing the people views and thought about government, and directly …show more content…
In a state of nature, men are “Noble Savages”. It means that people are not born evil, but are corrupted by society and turned evil. Enlightenment thinkers viewed human nature in terms of a morally neutral tabula rasa, or blank slate, that could be molded in various ways. They applied the idea of a social tabula rasa, or state of nature, to explain how civil society might have emerged and ought to be governed. Many Enlightenment thinkers, such as Hobbes, the Marquis d’Argenson (1694–1757), Montesquieu (1689– 1755), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), argued that political stability could be guaranteed by organizing society as a machine in which each component worked in harmony with the rest. Still others, like Locke in his The Second Treatise of Government (1689), used the idea of a state of nature to define the boundaries of state power in guaranteeing political