The Age of Enlightenment
Title: The Age of Enlightenment
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 949 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Age of Enlightenment
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 949 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Enlightenment was a movement of thought and belief concerned with the connected ideas of God, reason, nature. Man claimed wide assent among the intellectuals in 17th and 18th century Europe. It attacked the fundamental beliefs and practices of European society (Schneider Adams 709.) Although the Enlightenment was varied in emphasis and interests, those who agreed with its tenets were satisfied that reason could beget useful knowledge, soaring to the domination of man's happiness through freedom.
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