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[https://bigsiteofhistory.com/the-enlightenment/ by The Enlightenment] | [https://bigsiteofhistory.com/the-enlightenment/ by The Enlightenment] | ||
It was the Age of Enlightenment, when it was widely assumed that human reason could cure past ills and help achieve utopian government, perpetual peace, and a perfect society. Reason would enable humanity to discover the natural laws regulating existence and thereby assure progress. | It was the Age of Enlightenment, when it was widely assumed that human reason could cure past ills and help achieve utopian government, perpetual peace, and a perfect society. Reason would enable humanity to discover the natural laws regulating existence and thereby assure progress. | ||
=====12 Key Enlightenment Philosophers===== | |||
[https://www.worldhistory.org/collection/214/12-key-enlightenment-philosophers/ by Mark Cartwright 4/3/24 WORLD HISTORY ENCYCLOPEDIA] | |||
All of the above (and others besides) made vital contributions to the Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries, a time when intellectuals were trying to answer such key questions as what is happiness, what is the best political system, and how can we build a fairer world inhabited by educated, reasoned, and tolerant citizens? | |||
=====The Enlightenment===== | |||
[https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/The_Enlightenment] | |||
The Enlightenment was an late 17th- and 18th-century movement in Western thought, encompassing several artistic, intellectual, philosophic, and social changes developed around new theories of rational thought, scientific method, and empirical knowledge. The term is often used synonymously with the Age of Reason. | |||
=====Episode 2509: David A. Bell on "The Enlightenment"===== | |||
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Daw6ec_YaE0 by Keen On YouTube] | |||
So what, exactly, was “The Enlightenment”? According to the Princeton historian David A. Bell (https://www.davidavrombell.com/) , it was an intellectual movement roughly spanning the early 18th century through to the French Revolution. In his Spring 2025 Liberties Quarterly piece | |||
=====THE ENLIGHTENMENT===== | |||
[https://www.encyclopedia.com/international/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/enlightenment by The Enlightenment] | |||
To refer to The Enlightenment, complained the eminent historian of the eighteenth century, J. G. A. Pocock, was to presume inaccurately that one could refer to "a single unitary process, displaying a uniform set of characteristics. | |||
=====Age of Enlightenment===== | |||
[https://www.theopedia.com/age-of-enlightenment by Theopedia] | |||
The Enlightenment generally refers to the 18th century intellectual and philosophical developments in Europe. This movement advocated rationality as the sole criteria for establishing an authoritative system of ethics, aesthetics, and knowledge. | |||
=====The Rights of History: Enlightenment and Human Rights===== | |||
[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44488974 by Vincenzo Ferrone JSTOR] | |||
Lately, the study of human rights has become a dangerous ground for historians—above all in Europe. In his celebrated Le Sottisier, Gustave Flaubert ironically defined history as a dangerous knowledge for teachers and students; yet, he was not fully aware in his time of all the rivalries and pretentions that scholars from other fields—like anthropology, law, sociology, political theory—would raise. In fact, those scholars seem to be frightened when seeing the ranks of the historians approaching a field they consider their own property. This is certainly the case of human rights. | |||
=====Enlightenment===== | |||
[https://en.namu.wiki/w/%EA%B3%84%EB%AA%BD%EC%A3%BC%EC%9D%98 by Enlightenment] | |||
It appeared in Europe in the 17th century and spread in the 18th century, and developed into a movement of the times in which numerous scholars participated, including Isaac Newton , Baruch Spinoza , John Locke , David Hume , Edward Gibbon , Voltaire , Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Denis Diderot , and Immanuel Kant . | |||
=====enlightenment===== | |||
[https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/enlightenment by enlightenment] | |||
In some Western European countries, such as England, where the Enlightenment began in the 17th century, and in others, where it spread in the 18th century, the movement was so broad and influential that even its contemporaries believed that the “dark ages” had given way to an age of Enlightenment (in French, siècles des lumières, in German, Zeit der Aufklärung). The term “Enlightenment,” which is encountered in the writings of Voltaire and J. G. von Herder, was definitively established after the publication of Kant’s article “What Is the Enlightenment?” in 1784. | |||
=====The Christian Nationalist Rewriting American History===== | |||
[https://arcmag.org/the-christian-nationalist-rewriting-american-history/ by John Fea 6/10/25 ARC] | |||
Idaho pastor Douglas Wilson is having a moment. The 72-year-old Christian nationalist was recently the subject of a CNN story. He just planted a church in Washington, D.C. The secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, is a disciple. In the age of Trump, Christian nationalists like Wilson, who once presided over a fringe wing of American evangelicalism, are becoming mainstream. | |||
