that time period, the only thing people were allowed to believe was what the Church told them. During the Enlightenment, people began to think rationally and have their own beliefs. The Enlightenment period began the times of progress we would enjoy to the present time.In the book, "Cosmopolis," on page 14 it says, "We were taught that this 17th century insistence on the power of rationality, along with the rejection of tradition and superstition reshaped European life and society generally." If people never began to think rationally and still believed in the Church, there would be no such thing as modernity. Imagine what the world would be like if change was never possible. This is why I think we are lucky to live in these times of constant change.In the book, "Cosmopolis," it discusses the principal elements of the Modern Framework. The Modern Framework is divided into two groups, Nature and Humanity. The Nature element of the Modern Framework deals with the natural processes that involve matter and material. The Humanity element of the Modern Framework deals with human actions and experiences that are the result of reasoning. The two principal elements are binary opposites of each other. On page 108 it says, "Thus the contrast between reasons and causes turned into an outright divorce, and other dichotomies- mental vs. material, actions vs. phenomena, performances vs. happenings, thoughts vs. objects, voluntary vs. mechanical, active vs. passive, creative vs. repetitive." The main difference is that the Humanity element is what is inside us and we use it everyday in Nature, which is the setting for our actions.On page 11 in the article, "Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies," it says, "Modernity is really one thing, towards which every society is inevitably moving, though at different rates of development." This basically means that every society is changing, but some are progressing better than others are. Th...
