Women During The Enlightenment

“Human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights” written by Hillary Clinton. The Enlightenment produced modern separate theories of psychology and ethics, some of the most important ones were the freedom of speech, cruel and harsh punishments and most importantly women's rights. The Enlightenment represented an intellectual philosophical movement. People began to seek a way to understand the world through science and reason. Women's rights have made the largest impact in the world. Without women's brave and smart ideas, a lot of the things today would not have been here. I believe that women are a big part of the contribution to the Enlightenment. During the 1700’s, women never had the same rights as men. However, women
For example, during 1750 to 1777, Madame Geoffrin was referred to as one of the leading female figures in the French Enlightenment. Madame Geoffrin demonstrated qualities of politeness and civility that helped stimulate and regulate discussions. To conclude, women's rights have changed so much now because of these women during the enlightenment. Freedom of speech is a big part of the enlightenment. Voltaire was a man who strongly believed in reforming society in the name of justice and making people more happy. “Voltaire's ideas about religious tolerance and free speech greatly influenced colonial American political thinkers, such as Thomas Jefferson.“ Page 571. Volatile ideas such as reforming the society so that there would be more happiness in people. There was no certain speech that was restricted before Voltaire. People were not allowed to say what they believed in and they couldn't protest for what they believed was right. Volatire’s ideas also spread into different time periods, including Thomas Jefferson’s time period. Without the freedom of speech, nobody would know what other people believe
To end, freedom of speech was an important part of the Enlightenment period because if people weren't allowed to speak their minds or tell other people what needs to be changed, then we wouldn't have the ability to make things better for a different time. Cruel and unusual punishments were mostly noticed by Cesare Beccaria, a man who didn't agree that people should be punished in such harsh ways to either chop off their fingers or stretch their bodies to get information out of the people. From the text, “He argued that laws exist to preserve security and order and that punishments should be designed to serve this purpose” To explain further, Cesar Baccaria argued that laws are made to give security so that whoever breaks those laws will be punished, but he was confused how the punishments were made to make people not break the laws and have people pay for their actions. But people used the punishments for the wrong reasons, like to get someone to confess something. During this time, it affected people's lives because a lot of people would get punished for simple