Enlightenment is man's release from immaturity that we have created for ourselves. Immaturity is the inability to reason for our
selves without the guidance from another. This need for guidance is self-created, not because of our lack of reason, but because of our lack of bravery to use that reason on our own. The motto of the Enlightenment is this: Have courage to use your own understanding! According to Kant, what did the Enlightenment encourage people to do? Be careful and cautious. Think for themselves. Rely on past ideas and principles. Follow decisions made by others.
The Enlightenment was a movement that emerged in France in the 17th century that easily spread throughout Europe. this movement tinah as premise bases the fact that every human being is a rational being and endowed with an admirable intellectual capacity.
For this reason, Enlightenment thinkers advocated the use of reason and reasoning itself, based on proven facts to solve the problems of society; always encouraging people to think for themselves and to seek knowledge that would give the right basis for reasoning
Hiram Johnson managed to get the California Proposition 4 passed which was a constitution amendment to the constitution of California which gave Women the power to vote. This was in 1911, years before the 19th amendment was passed on a national level and before women from all around the United States of America got general suffrage rights.
