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Review a summary of the Enlightenment to learn when it was and the main ideas of the Enlightenment. Explore Enlightenment views, concepts, and important individuals. Updated: 11/21/2023 | Review a summary of the Enlightenment to learn when it was and the main ideas of the Enlightenment. Explore Enlightenment views, concepts, and important individuals. Updated: 11/21/2023 | ||
=====Introduction to Enlightenment===== | |||
[https://habib.camden.rutgers.edu/introductions/enlightenment/ by M.A. Rafey Habib RUTGERS] | |||
The Enlightenment was a broad intellectual tendency, spanning philosophy, literature, language, art, religion and political theory, which lasted from around 1680 until the end of the eighteenth century. Conventionally, the Enlightenment has been called the “age of reason,” though this designation is now regarded as somewhat reductive since it fails to comprehend the various intellectual trends of the period. | |||
