the reality of life in the 18th century

According to http://www.helium.com/users/37387/show_articles "Enlightenment thinkers believed in a single, knowable, absolute reality guided by rational natural laws. Individuals, said Enlightenment thinkers, have the faculty of reason, which enables them to accurately understand the absolute reality. Using reason, individuals can understand not only the factual data of reality but a rational moral system which can instruct them on how they ought to behave."



Although many thinkers of the 18th century stated their ideas and gave their opinions, this didnt help many people at all. people during the enlightenment were confused, the enlightenment was a time of many ideas and new formations of rules were being created. this was a time where people believed in individualism. i believe that people during the 18th century were not that easy to be persuaded in to something. many theories were floating around, many of these philosphes (enlightenment thinkers) were teaching younger generations their findings and what they percieved of the world that they were living in but it was still confusing for them. people saw life as their own reality and the different appearances of their world their living in, didnt really matter to them.
-----Janize Maldonado-----