Exposition on The Enlightenment Ideas The Hamilton readings depict the Enlightenment as both a way breaking and fairly conflicting period. This was a time of scholarly turn of events and theory in the eighteenth century. They had confidence in realism, thinking and utilization of science in realizing change and progress in the public eye. The hypothesis was persuasive in the three territories: Society and good science: They considered the to be of man as the way to getting society. A man's feelings and information was because of his experience, or induction. Men had been adulterated by wrong ethics, models and laws and this information should have been changed so as to impact man to be a superior individual. Man required new logical information to be a superior individual (Hall Stuart, David Held, Hubert Don Thompson Kenneth, 13). Holy person Simon (1780-1825) saw himself to be bringing the illumination thoughts into another level.