ENLIGHTENMENT THOUGHTS

Enlightenment Thoughts

Enlightenment Thoughts

Enlightenment means the cultural and philosophical movement that has dominated in Europe and particularly in France, the century which he gave, by extension, the name of the Enlightenment. Thinkers, scientists and writers ha ve the time printed on their critical thinking, setting itself the task of illuminating the " Reason “a humanity as well dive in" darkness "of ignorance, as in" arbitrary "policy blinded by the " darkness ", the" superstition "and" fanatical "religious as well as by the "prejudices "moral.

The members of this movement saw themselves as an elite advanced working for the progress of humanity. By refusing to recognize, a priori, to be true and correct what has always been recognized as such, they conducted a renewal of scientific knowledge, and an overhaul of ethics and society of their time. The influence of their writings has been instrumental in major events of the late century that the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America and the French Revolution.

Indeed, the reason cannot admit a God in three persons: "Why ask me, I believe that there are three persons in God, as firmly as I believe that the three angles of a triangle are equal to two rights. The revelation contradicts the very idea of God: "If God has revealed in time, when he ceased to be immutable, he wanted a time that he did not want it within other."Representation of God as" Big Clock "then penetrates the minds and rational observers of the world conscious leisure consciousness that it seems fairly straightforward, according to immutable laws that the Creator has set in motion by an initial flip. The perfection of the physical laws of the exemption tiring to worry about a world he himself has provided so it can function without his intervention.

However, the usefulness of a natural religion, free of contradictions in thought and metaphysical absurdities ...