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Hace 4 días · The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
Hace 2 días · Locke was an assiduous book collector and notetaker throughout his life. By his death in 1704, Locke had amassed a library of more than 3,000 books, a significant number in the seventeenth century.
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28 de mar. de 2024 · Enlightenment, a European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were synthesized into a worldview that gained wide assent in the West and that instigated revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and politics.
- When and where did the Enlightenment take place?Historians place the Enlightenment in Europe (with a strong emphasis on France) during the late 17th and the 18th centuries, or, more comprehensive...
- What led to the Enlightenment?The roots of the Enlightenment can be found in the humanism of the Renaissance, with its emphasis on the study of Classical literature. The Protest...
- Who were some of the major figures of the Enlightenment?Some of the most important writers of the Enlightenment were the Philosophes of France, especially Voltaire and the political philosopher Montesqui...
- What were the most important ideas of the Enlightenment?It was thought during the Enlightenment that human reasoning could discover truths about the world, religion, and politics and could be used to imp...
- What were some results of the Enlightenment?The French Revolution and the American Revolution were almost direct results of Enlightenment thinking. The idea that society is a social contract...
Hace 1 día · As a forerunner of the Age of Reason, Spinoza significantly influenced modern biblical criticism, 17th-century Rationalism, and contemporary conceptions of the self and the universe, establishing himself as one of the most important and radical philosophers of the early modern period.
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9 de abr. de 2024 · Benedict de Spinoza (born November 24, 1632, Amsterdam—died February 21, 1677, The Hague) was a Dutch Jewish philosopher, one of the foremost exponents of 17th-century Rationalism and one of the early and seminal figures of the Enlightenment. His masterwork is the treatise Ethics (1677).
Hace 5 días · Phil Withington examines the long-debated relationship between the law, legal practitioners, and the Renaissance. Withington specifically explores the vernacularisation of discourse on the ‘modern’ in 16th- and 17th-century English literature.
Hace 4 días · Chapters 20 to 22 retrace how Europe’s religious geography turned into a patchwork of competing states and ideologies in the course of the 16th and 17th century. The first of these chapters is entitled ‘The age of religious wars’, but in reality it looks at religious violence in Europe in general.
