Essays on Enlightenment

A Modest Proposal was written in 1729 by Jonathan Swift. Jonathan was born on November 30, 1667 in Dublin, Ireland to English parents. His father’s name was also Jonathan Swift but he had passed away two months before Swift’s birth. Due to the death of...

Frankenstein was written by Mary Shelley-Godwin, wife of author Percy Shelley. It was written in a time where feminism was just emerging, pioneered in part by Mary Shelley’s mother. Britain had just vanquished Napoleon for the final time, ending the Imperial byproduct of the Age...

The Enlightenment in the 18th century had many serious consequences such as less religious fervor and more of an inclination to a scientific society, yet it was also symbolic of the following years of unity and ambitiousness in the younger generation. The Enlightenment established physical...

The priest his name is Saed Rihani, who is an Arab Christian, which Arab Muslim label a Nazareth but because of Christians persuasion, and hostility this word can be, a derogatory term to Arab Christians. Saed Rihani is a deacon at his church called St....

The Buddha’s Enlightenment is the first “enlightenment” event in Buddhism and history, experienced by Siddhartha Gautama. Upon experiencing “enlightenment”, Siddhartha Gautama became the Buddha and began to found the Buddhist religion, hence the “Buddha’s Enlightenment”. In Buddhism, “enlightenment” is a state of perfect wisdom and...

Frederick the Great of Prussia and Joseph II of Austria both made great advances of enlightenment ideals. Before the enlightenment, most of europe was rural, with self-sufficient communities and little trade. The church was the dominant power, and class structure was strict and unable to...

Immanuel Kant’s most enduring work, What is Enlightenment? is one of the most famous and impactful of all Kant’s essays. According to Kant the definition of “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage.” Enlightenment is the ability for humans to think for themselves and...