Artists began to sign their work and sell off on it opposed to the past where artists painted to simply glorify god and to this day many of their works remain unknown. Political beliefs shifted too. Many scholars looked back on ancient Rome and found that their republican government was the best model. This encouraged education standards to grow. It became important that one be well rounded in all intellectual areas as well as becoming knowledgeable about ones physical being through wrestling or fencing.
Newton also changed the way we, even today, look at physics. Because of Newton, we learned that the reason that the planets all stay in perfect rotation with one another and not just going around everywhere is because of gravity pulling on them (Kagan, Ozment, and Turner 272-351). What did both the Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution have in common? They both went against the church. The Roman Catholic Church didn’t want people to use science to explain things in the universe because it went against what they believe God did.
Italy had great works of art that were created in that time. With all the great breakthroughs that happened during this time, people had become more aware of how the world worked and it greatly improved the people’s way of life. It started when the medieval ages were coming to an end, art started spreading and people became more open minded. Leonardo da Vinci was one of their most famous artist along with Raphael and Michelangelo. These men were great artist and their art is greatly recognized today.
It assisted in laying the foundation of religious reform, thereby initiated the coming of the Renaissance. At that time, people considered that the God created and dominated the whole world, so that they kept the strong faith in the religions. Nevertheless, in fact, the death never reduced even though they prayed devoutly, and the plague was not got controlled as well. Furthermore, the government and the church were thrown into a panic, and many of them fled for surviving, leaving the masses in the pains. Thus, people started to feel disappointed to the ruling class and distrustful of the God, which triggered off the consideration about their own destiny and formed the ideological basic for the renaissance
In the 16th century people who were not catholic were killed and tortured, so that the catholic church could stay in power and people would stay catholic. Today the world is completely opposite, it accepts any religion even if it conflicts with other religion such as Judaism and Christianity. Those two religion hated each other in the past but have grown and evolved, they still have different beliefs but it doesn't matter since they learned to get along thanks to the inquisition. What the inquisition has done for the modern world is teach us what is wrong and what is right; it showed us our mistakes that we'll not do again. The expression "learn from our mistakes" is true in this situation.
Religion at one time was very touchy subject in many cultures around the globe, as the world progressed more people became open to religion. Theses effects have lead to a society overflowing with religious moderates. Religious moderates are people who aren't fundamentalists and don't interpret their religious scripture in a literal context. They have tolerance for other religions and beliefs and believe that no faith should be forced upon you. Sam Harris discusses religious moderates and their dogmatic views in his article “The First Ten Pages.” Harris argues that they are the “instability” in our society because moderates believe in something without having factual evidence to prove it.
Protestant reformation was a spiritual/ religion revelation that aimed to correct the problem of the Catholic Church/ pope. But people achieved alot from renaissance; it awakened the world from very long dark sleep. Renaissance was a time for learning and creativity. It was time from turning god to man. Middle ages had destroyed people dreams and forced them to live s meaningless pattern of life.
John Locked firmly believed in the division of civil government and religion because they have separate functions, and should therefore act as independent institutions. Another argument made in A Letter Concerning Toleration is that it is ineffective to gain converts through violence because although it can coerce temporary obedience, it does not truly change one's beliefs. Voltaire explains an idea similar to Locke's in his essay, Of Universal Tolerance. He maintains that no religion is more divine than the rest, and thus no religion has the right to determine what is right and wrong for others. David Brooks's article, Kicking the Secularist Habit, outlines six steps for the modern secularist to realize that religious fervor never declined
Traditional society within the Middle Ages and Renaissance were very hectic in comparison to the time period after the Enlightenment. This is mainly because, during the Middle ages and Renaissance The Church had the most control over the people and government, Religion played a huge role in everyday life and the only religion that existed was the Catholic religion. For different crimes committed, there were multiple unjust and inconsistent punishments, also people did not have equal human rights. However, after a while philosophes began to produce these Enlightenment ideas which state that all people should be treated equally, have more say in government, have more rights, and have equal punishments according to the crime committed. Enlightenment ideas
Aldous Huxley wrote this novel in order to alarm the society in how technology is going to change our live as we know it. Most of the readers, after the lecture, wonder if our world is actually going to be worst or better in a future, if Huxley is going to be right. But other people with other backgrounds, cultures and knowledge, would have a different interpretation, reaction and understanding of the novel. Christianity believes in the individual who has its rights and liberty, they believe in an equal society in which God is the creator of all people, the world, the universe, and everything seen and unseen. If a Christian read Huxley’s novel, he would be horrified of people’s conditions, and of course wouldn’t even wonder that this future