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[https://www.sparknotes.com/history/the-enlightenment/ by sparknotes] | [https://www.sparknotes.com/history/the-enlightenment/ by sparknotes] | ||
The Enlightenment (1650-1800) is guide Number 7 of the 16 SparkNotes guides for studying European History. It describes the late 17th century and 18th century flourishing of new ideas and fresh thinking throughout Europe spurred by philosophers including John Locke, René Descartes, and Immanuel Kant and given voice in the works of Voltaire, Mozart, Goethe, and other creative geniuses. This study guide is preceded by our guide for The Scientific Revolution (1550-1700) and followed by our The French Revolution (1789–1799) guide. | The Enlightenment (1650-1800) is guide Number 7 of the 16 SparkNotes guides for studying European History. It describes the late 17th century and 18th century flourishing of new ideas and fresh thinking throughout Europe spurred by philosophers including John Locke, René Descartes, and Immanuel Kant and given voice in the works of Voltaire, Mozart, Goethe, and other creative geniuses. This study guide is preceded by our guide for The Scientific Revolution (1550-1700) and followed by our The French Revolution (1789–1799) guide. | ||
=====Europe Since 1600: A Concise History===== | |||
[https://colorado.pressbooks.pub/europesince1600concise/chapter/chapter-5-the-enlightenment/ by PRESSBOOKS] | |||
In 1784, a Prussian philosopher named Immanuel Kant published a short essay entitled What is Enlightenment? He was responding to nearly a century of philosophical, scientific, and technical advances in Central and Western Europe that, he felt, had culminated in his own lifetime in a more enlightened and just age. According to Kant, Enlightenment was all about the courage to think for one’s self, to question the accepted notions of any field of human knowledge rather than relying on a belief imposed by an outside authority. | |||
