The enlightenment period was a gap or turning point of our world values.During the enlightenment, people’s thought had changed a lot. Instead of a feudalism and traditional society, people wanted to form an equal and reasonable society. The idea of liberty also had been brought up.
People, who lived in the enlightenment period, were thought more “outside of the box”. People started to keep “Why” on their mind. Like Kant said: “dare to know”. Back then, God was everything, church was the one who hold the most power on hand. However, during the enlightenment, people started to question on the idea of Theology. It gave me a scene that a baby is new to the world and he/she is discovering the world.
During the enlightenment, people were pursuing equality on rights and liberty for everyone. Even now, many people are also pursuing the equality. Although equality and liberty is not totally cover our world now, but the enlightenment had open the door, which led people stepped my the road of everyone equality
The idea of “secular humanism” is more concern about reason and spirit. It could be the main part of what people wanted during the enlightenment. To Descartes, “God” will be the leader of secular humanism in his mind. As he talks in the chapter 4 of ‘discourse on method’，he used to think about whether he is “real” or not. After thinking with reason; he knew that he was true. “God” was a doctrine of the world; Descartes could found the meaning of his exiting, and also he could use it as the description to distinguish such as dream and reality.