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'''"The Enlightenment" or the "European Enlightenment''' | |||
'''Overview''' | |||
* 1680-1790 | * 1680-1790 | ||
* | * an intellectual "Age of Reason" | ||
* world view change from religious to secular | * world view change from religious to secular | ||
* skepticism | * marked by skepticism and inquiry | ||
* pursuit of happiness: focus on the human condition | * pursuit of happiness: focus on the human condition | ||
* diffusion of knowledge: books, pamphlets, publications, libraries, universities | * diffusion of knowledge: books, pamphlets, publications, libraries, universities | ||
= Background and historical context = | == Background and historical context == | ||
== Protestant Revolution == | === Protestant Revolution === | ||
* a product of the Protestant Reformation | |||
== Age of Discovery == | === Age of Discovery === | ||
== Scientific Revolution == | === Scientific Revolution === | ||
== Technological advances == | === Technological advances === | ||
== Key dates of the Enlightenment== | == Key dates of the Enlightenment== | ||
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*** the work attacked mysticism and superstition | *** the work attacked mysticism and superstition | ||
==== | ==== Taxonomy of human knowledge ==== | ||
[[File:ENC SYSTEME FIGURE.jpeg|thumb|Fig. 3: "Figurative system of human knowledge", the structure that the Encyclopédie organised knowledge into. It had three main branches: memory, reason, and imagination.]] | [[File:ENC SYSTEME FIGURE.jpeg|thumb|Fig. 3: "Figurative system of human knowledge", the structure that the Encyclopédie organised knowledge into. It had three main branches: memory, reason, and imagination.]] | ||
* Enlightenment's outlook was that all human knowledge and the world and universe around it can be understood rationally | * Enlightenment's outlook was that all human knowledge and the world and universe around it can be understood rationally | ||
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== Enlightenment thinkers == | == Enlightenment thinkers == | ||
=== | <nowiki> === alphabetical by last name===</nowiki> | ||
<nowiki> === </nowiki>section title: first, last, alphabetical by last name | <nowiki> === </nowiki>section title: first, last, alphabetical by last name | ||
* dates | * dates | ||