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Fhilosophy and thinkers (...and Storyexpers).
The Enlightenment fascinates Storyexpe users first and foremost because of what gave it its name: the enlightened thinking of its philosophers. This is reflected in discussions of Kant, Voltaire, John Locke, Rousseau, and many others. The good thing is: you don’t need to be a philosopher to be part of the conversation. You can simply enlighten us with your thoughts on the matter.
Geographical discoveries.
The Enlightenment and the Victorian age were periods of great and legendary adventures in which the world's geographic maps were essentially completed (with a few exceptions): from the discovery of Australia to David Livingstone's exploration of Africa. … ...And not less legendary are the conversations about all this here on Storyexpe. You can adventure yourself into the official Storyexpe Enlightenment and the Victorian age community and discover new aspects of your map of wisdom.
Scientific, technological and industrial advances
From Isaac Newton to Benjamin Franklin, from Alessandro Volta to Charles Darwin, from Gregor Mendel to Marie Curie and of course Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla, just to name a few. In addition to being names that we all heard (and ideally even studied) in school - not always with our greatest enthusiasm - thanks to their pioneering spirit, we came across their names and works very often.
Today, each of them stands as the emblematic image of their own achievements, purpose, and spirit.
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Fhilosophy and thinkers
The Enlightenment fascinates Storyexpe users first and foremost because of what gave it its name: the enlightened thinking of its philosophers. This is reflected in discussions of Kant, Voltaire, John Locke, Rousseau, and many others. The good thing is: you don’t need to be a philosopher to be part of the conversation. You can simply enlighten us with your thoughts on the matter.
Scientific, technological and industrial advances
From Isaac Newton to Benjamin Franklin, from Alessandro Volta to Charles Darwin, from Gregor Mendel to Marie Curie and of course Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla, just to name a few. In addition to being names that we all heard (and ideally even studied) in school - not always with our greatest enthusiasm - thanks to their pioneering spirit, we came across their names and works very often.
Geographical discoveries
The Enlightenment and the Victorian era were periods of great and legendary adventures in which the world's geographic maps were essentially completed (with a few exceptions): from the discovery of Australia to David Livingstone's exploration of Africa. … ...And not less legendary are the conversations about all this here on Storyexpe.
Literature and Arts
From Charles Dickens to Edgar Allan Poe, from Victor Hugo to Alexandre Dumas, just to name some of the main authors that still exert a major influence on contemporary culture, and whose stories and protagonists have become legendary. In terms of painting, Pre-Raphaelites are particularly popular on Storyexpe.
American and French Revolutions
Not only are their causes and consequences passionate today, but also often the parallels with modern society.
"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."
Voltaire
About the Enlightenment
"Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it."
"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities."
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."
"I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way."
"Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time."
"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road."
"The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe."
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."
"Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment."
"Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person."
"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."
"Look closely. The beautiful may be small."
"Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them."
"Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence."
"Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights"
"Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion."
"What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it."
"Education is the art of making man ethical"
"The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. The impulse of curiosity, the pressure for knowledge, from the lowest level up to the highest rung of philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one's own in one's ideas and thought."
"When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated."
"The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures."
"Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two."
