Journey Of Enlightenment

The journey of science has come a long way in analyzing how knowledge developed over the years as it continues to expand its boundaries towards new ideas and discoveries. It changed the perspective of life and assigned different roles in our society. All the literatures that were written and the scientific data gathered through observations and performance have proven to expand the cultural beliefs of Enlightenment, which impacted how humanity is defined by. These contributions that influenced the approach of life, such as subject matters, reasoning, and society practices, has created a diversity of ideas and concepts that shaped our modern world. As scientists began to move beyond the ancients to discover an integrated body of knowledge

Before advanced technologies were invented, the Earth was always thought as an object in the center of the universe with other planets and space objects orbiting around it in perfect circles. Nicolaus Copernicus discovered that the Earth rotates on its axis and that it is not the center of the universe. Based on his observations and measurements, Johannes Keeper created the three laws of planetary motions: 1) the elliptical shape the planet travels in, 2) the changing in the constant speed of planet movement around the sun through time, and 3) the ratio between the period and distance for each planet. Issac Newton expanded Copernicus and Keeper’s labor and focused his calculations with calculus as well as analyzing optics and expressing gravity through a mathematical expression. In his article, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Isaac Newton explained that the natural philosophy is built by the results of the qualities of objects that are used in experiments (Newton, 50) and not based on what one thinks or believes. He said that every experimental data gathered is through the senses (touch, hear, smell taste, feel) and not by reasons because all objects are

For example, society practices and gender roles have been criticized for many years in which many writers and governors have criticized the society from both sides of the arguments. The biggest one was feminism. Scholars have been arguing that men have the better power in leading the nature of humans to virtue and happiness in life due to the amount of education they have, a strong body, and the society’s support while women have “knowledge of human weakness justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience, and a a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety” (Wollstonecraft,168) that requires the need of a man. Mary Wollstonecraft disagreed that females are more artificial, useless, and have weak characteristics since these characteristics do not express the faith in her observations (Wollstonecraft, 169). While men do have the body strength for protection and able to provide a living for his wife and children, a woman can manage her family and practice various virtues while becoming her own self without being dependent on her husband (Wollstonecraft,172) if given the chance to strengthen her own body and exercise her mind. Mary believed that there should be reasons behind why the society identifies women as weak creatures when they are actually capable of performing the same tasks as men do. To build a harmony between both