modern world

1. Enlightenment: discovery of the physical world affected philosophies. It was related to the Scientific Revolution because the enlightenment began to apply scientific principles to the government and society. All the philosophers emphasized the need/use of reason. They believed people should use reason to free themselves from ignorance and superstitions, thereby becoming enlightened.

2. The romantic period was also known as the imaginative period, philosophers believed in feeling, thought, and behavior, social and democratic behavior, individualism, sense of isolationism, everything is from nature, questioning of authority, introduction to a democratic society, “existence is feeling” quoted by Rousseau. The romantic period was a radical change of how people viewed themselves and nature, opened an emotional and sentimental side of humanity. The Romantic Movement was both a positive and negative reaction to the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. It was a reacti...