European Enlightenment

Enlightenment awareness was the growth of ideas of European thinkers of the 1600s. The spread of enlightenment was the result of the scientific revolution of the 1500s and 1600s. Therefore, rationality is necessary to distribute human rights. It is also coming from the need to tackle social, political and economic issues. Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier established a modern chemistry framework with Enlightenment. Edward Jenner established a vaccine against smallpox which is a fatal disease.

Ekhtiar, Rochelle Suzette. "Enlightenment Novel: Eastern Story of the 18th Century England" 1985, Brandeis University. This study focuses on politics, ethics and social education and examines British Oriental novels in the context of European enlightenment. Investigating the relationship with enlightenment throughout Europe reveals many of its ideological problems shared with other forms of 18th century prose. The image of the oriental of Europe (here restricted to the Middle East) is a complex structure of European thinking.

During the Enlightenment Period, we can go back to the middle of the 18th century, mainly about changes in European cultural worldview. The term "enlightenment" means a series of changes in European thinking and writing. When writers, philosophers, and scientists of the 18th century called their activities enlightenment, they broke the past and replaced ambiguity, darkness, and ignorance of European thought with "light of truth" It meant that.

Thanks to enlightenment, the 18 th century was a key change point in the history of Europe. Voltaire was a revolutionary actor who promoted religious freedom, scientific thinking, skepticism and experience philosophy using his ideas to attack the established Catholic church. Voltaire was born in 1694 and belonged to the Louis XIV group. At that time, nobility dominated France in an extreme way, and most civilians