In 1774 African-American poet Phyllis Wheatley wrote that each human possessed the God-given love of freedom. How does this idea expressed both religious belief in the enlightenment thought?

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Layne Adkins

11 March, 08:36

In 1774 African-American poet Phyllis Wheatley wrote that each human possessed the God-given love of freedom. How does this idea expressed both religious belief in the enlightenment thought?

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Kelly Moyer · Answer 1

The key is the word Freedom as the clear basis of the enlightenment thought

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Enlightenment thought basis is human freedom of thoughts. However, this paragraph mention God as the entity that provides humans with its freedom, making us believe that even though men had started considered a more anthropocentric view of life, spiritual believes still very important on how these transition from theocentric to anthropocentric perspectives are more related than separate. Meaning that God would remain as an spiritual though without let reason depart from its conceptions.

As San Agustin's Philosophy in which reason would be the tool to understand the divine truhth, this poet considers freedom as the divine privilege human has to understand all that surrounds us.