History product: ASPECT 3: MENTALITY

ASPECT 3: MENTALITY

Church or enlightenment?

Up until the 18th century, life was seen and understood in accordance with the catholic beliefs, being God the centre of everything. Then came Enlightenment, an intellectual movement that seeked to replaced God with scientific reasoning, with logic. During the Enlightenment many philosophers emerged. The philosophers of that time attacked the Catholic Church because of their scientific approach to the questions of life.

Pantheism states that God lives in nature and reveals Himself trough it and it asks why should Catholics have priests, bishops...? they argue, cat't they find the essence? the deep truth of God in nature? And that's just what people of Enlightenment supported based on science,when religion says that God lives everywhere, not only in nature, and we need bishops, the Pope and priests to help us interpret God's messages and if you realise that the more help you get, the more priests, bishops that you have, the easier you'll find to understand God's message.

Trust in science says that you shouldn't believe anything that is not scientifically proved. I think this is just that scientists can't combine believing in God and science, as the belief in God would contradict their scientific studies, but that doesn't mean you have to choose you just have to accept that something don't have to be necessarily scientifically proved.

Liberalism: John Locke's ideas.
Positive view of human nature: people could learn from experience and improved themselves
People had the natural ability to govern their own affairs.
All people are born free and equal, with three natural rights