Saturday, April 2, 2011

The Age of the Enlightenment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vkx7hNXE3Y
The idea of the Enlightenment is the idea of the searching a reason, the idea of thinking about ourselves, the abuse of religious idea, and the challenge against authorities. Many Enlightenment thinkers spoke about their new ideas. As an example, the key Enlightenment thikers are Issac Newton, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacque Rousseau. Their ideas gives impact to people in the era. People followed these idea occured a lot of the big events in the world history; such as Imperialism, Industrial Revolution, the Declaration of the Independence, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, and French Revolution.

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