Illustration Features

An illustration is understood as the cultural movement that focused on scientific veracity, which was applied above popular customs and surpassed everything type of religious dogma always putting reason before all questioning, putting aside everything that seems supernatural establishing as the main thing empirical.

Enlightenment emerged in France during the 18th century invading all of Europe and its last cultural movements reached the 19th century.

This regime was formalized and supported by criteria formed by the upper classes and considered absolutists, who at the same time control the governments they imposed this system which they called "enlightened despotism", which was imposed by the monarchy absolute.

Illustration features:

Imposition.- The illustration was characterized mainly by being imposed by the upper social classes and by the monarchs, who They used this regime as a way of imposing their wills or the principles that they considered indispensable.

Elimination of myths.- By imposing the illustration they tried to remove customs and myths that were found in the population, especially those of the more advanced classes. Low, these customs and myths were mainly influenced by religions that were based on traditional customs and dogmas.

Revolutions.- The illustration in an analogous way produced the wave of revolutions where some colonies and societies separated themselves from the sovereigns who imposed their will one One of the most influential revolutions was the French Revolution, which was the beginning of the world's revolutions, not because it was the first, since the first North American revolution, but it is the one that established the rights of man and of the French citizen that at the same time started the wave of human rights in the world.

Philosophy.- The philosophy of the Enlightenment focuses on reason and empiricism, focusing on France and Great Britain, and the values ​​of these Mainly humanistic philosophies clashed with the monarchy and religion which produced friction between these regimes and detaching from the monarchical regime and leading man to what we know today as democracy, which was based on Greek principles modified.

Thinkers.- The thinkers who influenced the illustration were among others:

1. Discards
2. Locke
3. Bacon
4. Newton
5. Galileo

End of monarchies.- The philosophical currents and the imposition of ideas produced by the monarchs, were exasperating the lower social classes, which at one time Given and influenced by the thinkers of this same current, they reached the revolution and later the creation of free and democratic republics.