The Enlightenment (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events 1500-1900)
Greenwood | 2008 | ISBN: 0313342431 | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB
One of the few self-named historical movements, the Enlightenment in 18th-Century Europe was a powerful intellectual reaction to the dominance of absolutist monarchies and religious authorities. Building upon the discoveries of the Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment thinkers—philosophes—set out to improve humanity through reason, knowledge, and experience of the natural world rather than religious doctrine or moral absolutes.
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