Moving on from the Renaissance period with Bosch to the Romanticism period with the artist William Blake with his writing's of the marriage of heaven and hell and with his imagery (image below), we as a society started to move into the enlightenment era.
It was at this time of the Enlightened Era that philosophers believed that all men were equally as they all possessed reasoning and so had the right to live. This lead to philosophers viewing the church as a sauce of ignorance as they believe God made the earth to watch evolve and develop and that heaven and hell did not existence, life is in the here and now.
During this era the views and concepts helped influence the revolutions that helped shift the balance of power from the church to the people. Even though the philosophers during this time had changed the views of so many people, allowing them to think for freely allowing science to develop, it also develop the beginnings of governments systems but most of them were leading to despotism (the belief of one greater leader). This freedom was great for our culture as a way out of the church constraint's of the church but i believe this was also the beginning in the slow deconstruction of our society thus this Utopian era was to one day become what i now believe to be our current dystopia society.
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