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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. | 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. | ||
=====HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ENLIGHTENMENT: A VIEW OF THEIR HISTORY===== | |||
[https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-intellectual-history/article/abs/historiography-and-enlightenment-a-view-of-their-history/A35491A94A7C20D15A49293BE0BE9BAA by Cambridge University 1/4/08 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY] | |||
This essay is written on the following premises and argues for them. “Enlightenment” is a word or signifier, and not a single or unifiable phenomenon which it consistently signifies. There is no single or unifiable phenomenon describable as “the Enlightenment,” but it is the definite article rather than the noun which is to be avoided. In studying the intellectual history of the late seventeenth century and the eighteenth, we encounter a variety of statements made, and assumptions proposed, to which the term “Enlightenment” may usefully be applied, but the meanings of the term shift as we apply it. | |||
