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[https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-enlightenment/id1537788786?i=1000532100229 by Podcasts] | [https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-enlightenment/id1537788786?i=1000532100229 by Podcasts] | ||
Once there was darkness and then there was light. What was the Enlightenment and why did it matter? Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook explore the Enlightenment and its path towards reason, science, revolution and the guillotine. | Once there was darkness and then there was light. What was the Enlightenment and why did it matter? Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook explore the Enlightenment and its path towards reason, science, revolution and the guillotine. | ||
=====Enlightenment philosophers: Locke, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau===== | |||
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3d609dAxMg by Prezi YouTube] | |||
Learn about the key beliefs of four Age of Enlightenment philosophers: John Locke, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Montesquieu, and Rousseau. The Age of Enlightenment was a period in European history where science and philosophical thought were at the forefront, instead of religion and tradition. People were asking scientific questions and questioning why their government worked the way it did. They were guided by logic and wanted to explore more possibilities and improve the way things were. These four Enlightenment philosophers were some of the leaders in thinking back then. | |||
