Illustration Ideas

The Illustration It is a cultural movement, for the liberation of the human spirit, which began in the Renaissance, which transformed thought European eighteenth century, also called the "Age of Enlightenment", particularly in France, based on rational and experimental.
The characteristics and ideas are summarized in:
- Development of physical-mathematical science.
- Analyze and interpret many of the beliefs inherited from tradition or revealed by the dogmas of the Church.
- Reason will be a human instrument to guide society towards well-being and justice.
- Nature is considered as a great machine conceived by God and governed by laws established by Him; man should not contradict these laws but try to discover them through reason.
- Equality. All men are equal in the light of reason and have equal rights.
- The fight for freedom, both in political and economic matters, in intellectual and religious matters.
- Secular morality, men are governed by moral norms not only because God orders them to be observed, but because reason demands respect for the rights of others.