Immanuel Kant - An Answer to the Question What is Enlightenment
What is the Enlightenment?
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Loosely affiliated movement of writers, artists, thinkers, and scientists, that affected aspects of life in Europe and the colonies
c. 1650-1800
What is the Enlightenment?
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The Age of Enlightenment
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Logic and Reason (common sense) Empiricism (Evidence-based thought) and
the Scientific Method Personal Freedom and Self-Governance Free Exchange of Ideas, and the
exploration of the logical, mathematical, or political Laws that govern the Universe.
Inspired by Democratic and Republican societies of ancient Greece and Rome, and the scientific and philosophical exploration that took place in them.
Basic Enlightenment Values
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Superstitions Religious traditions and dogma Some social and class traditions and
structure Monarchies, aristocracy, and hereditary
governments
The Enlightenment Reacted Against….
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Rene Descartes
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Isaac Newton
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Voltaire
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John Locke
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Adam Smith
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American Enlightenment
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In the American Revolution
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In the American Revolution