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[https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history-art/the-enlightenment/content-section-7 by The Open University] | [https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history-art/the-enlightenment/content-section-7 by The Open University] | ||
The sublime was potentially subversive of the Enlightenment mindset, which focused mainly on the power of human intelligence to grasp and explain the natural world, and indeed to discover natural causes of phenomena previously considered supernatural. There were, for example, frequent attempts to demystify the ‘miracles’ narrated in the Bible, since the violation of the laws of nature which a miracle implied was a physical impossibility and a contradiction in terms. | The sublime was potentially subversive of the Enlightenment mindset, which focused mainly on the power of human intelligence to grasp and explain the natural world, and indeed to discover natural causes of phenomena previously considered supernatural. There were, for example, frequent attempts to demystify the ‘miracles’ narrated in the Bible, since the violation of the laws of nature which a miracle implied was a physical impossibility and a contradiction in terms. | ||
=====What Was the Enlightenment?===== | |||
[https://www.livescience.com/55327-the-enlightenment.html by Owen Jarus 12/9/19 LIVESCIENCE] | |||
While the Enlightenment of the late 17th and 18th centuries was a time when science blossomed and revolutions in the United States and France occurred, it was also a time when millions of people were enslaved and transported from Africa to the Western Hemisphere. | |||
