History 1401E Lecture 8: The Enlightenment at Large
5 Oct 2016
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We see history in the west as a linear progress. Dark ages - renaissance - reformation - enlightenment - revolutions (industrial, political) - modern. This is an enlightenment view of history, therefore we should be skeptical. This does not describe all of europe, let alone the world. The classical age of islam occurs during the dark ages. A european intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as descartes, locke, and. Newton, and its prominent figures included kant, goethe, voltaire, rousseau, and adam smith. (concise. Is commonly known in european history as the age of enlightenment . Everywhere there was the feeling that europe had at last emerged from a long twilight . The sense of progress was all but universal among educated classes .
