Three Slogans of Western Modern Enlightenment

The three slogans of the modern Western Enlightenment are freedom, equality and fraternity.

The general goal of the French Enlightenment is to continue the Renaissance from the ideological front and further defeat the French feudal rule and its spiritual pillar-the Catholic Church, so it is the ideological preparation for the French bourgeois revolution. The three slogans of the French bourgeois revolution, freedom, equality and fraternity, were put forward and promoted by the Enlightenment.

The Enlightenment fundamentally weakened the theocracy and feudal rule of the church, and gradually put the development of western philosophy on the right track of materialism and atheism. It created a new ideology for the bourgeoisie and promoted the development of the bourgeois revolution.

The deficiency of the enlightenment

Enlightenment also has its limitations and incompleteness. The leaders of the Enlightenment were all intellectuals, and the political struggle first took the form of ideological struggle. They did not see, and could not see, that the motive force of social development is the economic basis of material production.

They believe that only cultural and ideological movements can "light up" the mind, stimulate rationality and eliminate all social diseases. Then arrange a new system according to the truth, which can bring universal happiness to mankind. At the same time, the rational kingdom of the Enlightenment is an idealized kingdom of the bourgeoisie, and the bourgeois world established according to the principles of these enlightenment scholars is also unreasonable and unfair.