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A twelve page paper which looks at the different views of Utopia which were proposed by various thinkers of the French Enlightenment, including Rousseau, Voltaire and de Graffigny.
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the French Enlightenment, it is helpful to look briefly at the background of the Enlightenment itself and some of the reasons why this period gave rise to so great an
emphasis on the concept of Utopia. Even though the period is generally referred to as the 18th century Enlightenment, this is something of an artificial construct, used by academics to
set it in a general historical framework: the origins of what be classed Enlightenment things began towards the end of the seventeenth century, and its ramifications continued into the beginning
of the nineteenth. As with all periods which are later characterised by a particular
mindset or way of thinking, there were a number of intellectual and cultural elements which underpinned the development of the Enlightenment, or the Age of Reason. For instance, there was
an increasing emphasis on a secular rather than a religious worldview, which continued as an undercurrent despite the religious conflicts between Catholicism and Protestantism which commanded so much attention. The
secularism of the Scientific Revolution ran currently with the Reformation, and was eventually triumphant over the former domination of the various religious institutions: this is probably best exemplified by the
failure of the Catholic faith to suppress Copernicus. By the start of the
eighteenth century, intellectuals and scientists had for the most part shifted away from the codified superstition of the Middle Ages and were taking a far more secular view of the
world. Ironically, the Reformation itself played a significant role in the growth of secularism: the fragmentation which occurred as reformist thinking divided the established church diminished religious authority and paved
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