Reading Notes W2: Introduction: The Enlightenment in Europe and the Americas, Part A

This is the first reading of the class I do say it was a lot to digest couple of pages talk a lot about human nature and understanding of what humans roles are in society as well as touch a bit into race and women roles as well. Which the overall topic they were discussions was trying to find or figure what enlightenment is and some of these topics play into that. One of the passages sanded out to me in Martin Puchner "The Enlightenment in Europe and the Americas " talked a lot about the the philosophic part which everyone thinks about at one point in are life, is there more than what we see and does that effect use in who we are as a person and as human beings. "If contemplating the nature of human reason led philosophic skeptics to doubt our ability to know anything with certainty, other thinkers insisted on the existence, beyond ourselves, of an entirely rational physical and moral universe "( p. 92). This interesting because based on what I read the both kind of judge humanity objectively and unbiased. I believe they did this to give the readers there own point of view on enlightenment and humans.