Voltaire is well credited for liberating the political from the relics of mythology and religious dogmas, and affirming the factors of consciousness and scientific knowledge.
Explanation:
Despite the controversy of his ideas in which he equally has places, both for the belief in the progress and the continuous development of humanity, which underlies the development of reason, and for the deciduous claims about the immutability of certain social institutions and relationships.
In order to relieve political and social consternation and create basic conditions for respect for natural and human rights, two solutions were available to French citizenship: the radical and the opportunistic.
The first would lead to the declaration of war in the Middle Ages, which had not yet come to an end, that is, the confrontation with the old regime in a revolutionary way.
Another solution was to penetrate the upper classes, to the nobility, without destroying the order of things. Thus emerged a type of citizen aspiring to the nobility, as he had been portrayed by Moliere in the seventeenth century.
The Scientific Revolution influenced the development of the Enlightenment values of individualism because it demonstrated the power of the human mind. ... The power of human beings to discern truth through reasoning influenced the development of the Enlightenment value of rationalism.
Well, to start, the Supreme Court could have ruled differently in Plessy v. Ferguson.
In Plessy, the Supreme Court condoned the practice of "separate but equal" making it permissible for the white south (and north) to create discriminatory practices.
