Progression Of The Enlightenment And The Romantic Era

The Enlightenment era and the Romantic era was a time of progression. Each time period offered its own views on the natural world and religion. The Enlightenment era also known as the Age of Reason showed that observation, empiricism, and reason were to be the foundation and the terms to which everything was held to. Whereas, the Romantic era took a particular emphasis on the individual and sought to combat classism as well as rebellion against social rules; the enlightenment and romantic era were similar but they were also very different, the popularized themes such as religion and human rights contrasted each other and were used for either unification or gain of power, but never both. The attitudes towards religion and science have multiple variations to it, whether it be that in the Enlightenment era one was cared for more than the other or even within that same era there was toleration for the sake of governing,
David Hume’s “Of Miracles” exemplified a belief widely shared in 1748. Around that time it was a consistent theme for the foundational concepts of Christianity to be questioned. In “Of Miracles” Hume questioned the possibility of Miracles, and he uses to the concept empiricism to show how miracles are impractical in the real sensible world. Empiricism means gaining knowledge through sensible-experiences. In that time empiricism constantly combated the ideals of Christianity. Galileo and Copernicus