HIS109Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter The Enlightenment: Indictable Offence, Philosophes, Ion
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Brophy ii: 216 - 238, 244-258: the enlightenment. The brophy readings this week talked about the enlightenment, which was a philosophical movement in. Europe, most centrally france, in the eighteenth century that was birthed from the scienti c revolution the century before. The ideas of the scienti c revolution like reason and secularization spread among people who now applied reason to their everyday lives and the societal institutions that surrounded them like the church and government. Short summary: the readings this week were about the enlightenment and essentially the idea of enlightenment, as immanuel kant said is when a man emerges from his inability to formulate original thoughts, which is unnatural and self-imposed. The common theme through all of these readings was. Nding out the true nature of humans and man"s unquenchable thirst for knowledge and truth as well as basic human rights.
