The Enlightenment Controversy
Was the Enlightenment more about advancing society or the bourgeois values? Explain.
posted by Was @ 5:43 PM
Friday, November 17, 2006
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7 Comments:
The Enlightenment was more about the bourgeois. I say this because the peasant's didn't really get thier lives to be that much better. The Enlightenment also was centered around the intellectuals. THe people were never freed untill much later sometimes never right now my moom is watching the abc World news tonight which is talking of the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. In Dubia they are making all sorts of big buildings that are long past the Enlightenment, but the workers are "slaves that aren't paid right away and then only 1 dollar an hour.
You would think that it was advancing society because women were given the opportunity to participate in discussions with salons but the agenda was advancing the bourgeois. Physiocrats and Adam smith talked more about economics than anything. The systems they discussed are hugely used by modern "bourgeois" who evolved with the times to meet demands by supplying people with what they want so that the bourgeois themselves make good profit.
Sledge, the city is in comparison to American cities. The per capita income is greater than Mexico (or so I have been told).
that sucks.
wait-sledge-are you Nicholas by any chance?
I don't think that peasants were concerned with the Enlightenment at all...I don't even think they knew it was happening unless by word of mouth, and still it's not like they had a lot of time to speculate...
Definitely bourgeois! I understand now. The social reforms were being called for anyway, mostly because the peasants hated the nobles, adn the merchants wanted the land to be developed, in order to use it for their own purposes-plus the merchants were growing more powerful but were still grouped with everyone else while the nobles still stood higher than them in a class of their own. I know that the bourgeois didn't like that!
merchants and bourgeois are the same. Bourgeois is a French merchant :)
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