I Kan't Explain It!!
Everyone has their own idea of enlightenment. I, for example, might feel enlightened after eating a really good double extra chocolate brownie with chocolate chips and cocoa powder (my mouth is watering). After all, I have just eaten the god of all brownies. You however, might feel enlightened after listening to two critics debate whether Emily Dickinson’s poem “Wild Nights” is about a longing for freedom or sex. In Buddhism, the idea of enlightenment is knowing yourself. You meditate constantly until you simply have clear thought. You no longer know any limitations and you can think faster than the speed of light. However, in western thought, enlightenment simply means that you know everything. I believe, and so does Immanuel Kant, that enlightenment is actually a conglomeration of the Buddhist and Western thoughts. We believe that enlightenment means a process of clear thought in a field of education/knowledge specific to the individual. Therefore, enlightenment can occur more than once in each person. The major point of my view of enlightenment is the fact that I believe that it enables us to know our own abilities instead of being told what our abilities are."This free thought gradually acts upon the mind of
Wollstonecraft opens enlightenment to the realm of passion. A natural passion of the human mind is the passion to gain knowledge. However, this brings another argument to light: How can you acknowledge an unexplainable passion in the enlightenment realm of thought? It's not possible. The only answer reflects on Blake's passionate yet rational creation. Passion allows us to accept the unseen and rational thought allows us to argue the inconceivable. Enlightenment thinking has changed the world. Whether it's for the better or worse remains, to this day, to be seen? If you look at the freedom and independence of the world's cultures, the Enlightenment period has had very good results. However, it could be argued that the Enlightenment has hindered the growth and development of the arts, literature, and other passionate endeavors. I disagree. I feel that if the Enlightenment never came about, those passionate exercies would be dull and boring. This is because they would then be very commonplace and no one would be able to think of new ways to have fun. The Enlightenment caused new passions, the same way that passion opens new realms to become enlightened about. Passion allows us to gain new abilites, such as drawing, painting, playing an instrument, and enlightenment allows us understand how these different activities enrich our lives. These two contradictory terms have become a circle, or, in relation to my brownie analogy, maybe these two have combined to become a marble fudge brownie, the white and black portions combining to create a taste equalled by no other. "Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience..." (Wollstonecraft, 116) Mary Wollstonecraft builds on the basic ideas of Blake and Kant. She simply twists these ideas to women's suffrage. If you substitute "human" for the word "female", you grasp Wollstonecraft's general point. Blind obedience is problem we face even today. Children are blindly led by their parents because "they don't kn
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