Topic > The Impact and Importance of Philosophy - 1057

People are in the process of becoming highly civilized under the influence of philosophy. First and foremost, learning knowledge is a necessary job to do. As people become more knowledgeable, civilization will be higher. For example, in the past, people didn't know what was in the sky. So, they imagined that there were gods or that God lived there. This was how people tried to explain the mysteries they saw. After Hans Lippershey, a Dutch eyeglass maker, invented the telescope, scientists used it to discover the sky and proved that there were no gods in the sky but a vast, black space with shining stars above the sky. People are smarter than in the past. Secondly, people's free minds are an important thing. For example, in the 14th century, philosophers started an influential cultural movement called the Italian Renaissance. People have shifted their attention from God to man. Painters began to improve the realism of their works. Later, at the end of the 17th century, a new cultural movement, Enlightenment, was triggered by philosophers like Francis Bacon, John Locke and Voltaire etc. The movement is a revolution in human thinking because people dared to challenge their traditional ideas and faith and called for human rights. People began to look for real truth proven by science rather than believing superstition. Those movements greatly improved the civilization of the people. After that, people do what human beings should do. The situation on prejudices decreases and people