A Time of Change
Robert Chaplin
History 112
Dr. Farrell
12 April 2000
A Time of Change
The enlightenment was a great time of change in both Europe and
America. Some of the biggest changes, however, happened in the minds of
many and in the writings of many philosophers. These included some of
the beliefs of David Hume, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, and
Francois Voltaire. Writers during this time focused on optimism, which
is the opinion to do everything for the …
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…during the Enlightenment this source of power
is obvious and is carried out. Whether the readers believed the
philosophers or not, it got the reader thinking and he talked to his
friends and the revolts began. The Enlightenment was a time of change
but it was also a time that dealt with the "unreality" that some thought
could be but never were because some were so extreme or contradicted
each other from philosopher to philosopher.
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