Week 6 - The Landscape And Sublime

1. When and what was the enlightenment?

Described as the age of reason and thought, the enlightenment was characterised by theory and a system of thought that soon lead the renaissance, 'Naturalism over supernaturalism, the social and communicable over the private and mystical, a celebration of secular life'. Situated during the 17-18th century in Europe It had infiltrated the concepts of life on earth that was outlined by scientific progression and belief. Social integration and many theories of how things worked. The universe for instance was considered to be seen as 'fundamentally rational; meaning that it can be understood from reason alone. Another main aspect to the movement was the focus on Human Life and the natural world-geography. Scientists at the time were rather 'egotistical' because they believed that science could basically answer and solve anything that came to interest; therefore it was factual to say that religion had no say in the understanding of the physical and human worlds. The political attitude was distain with a fear of ''enthusiasm'' and more subject to containing only the thought of the enlightenment philosophy.


References:

-http://www.sublimelandscapes.com/
-http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=397117&section=6
-http://bodhicittasangha.org/pdf/NgondroConcise.pdf (the enlightenment and the sublime)