The Enlightenment And The Role Of The Philosophes
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The Enlightenment is a name given by historians to an intellectual
movement that was predominant in the Western world during the 18th century.
Strongly influenced by the rise of modern science and by the aftermath of
the long religious conflict that followed the Reformation, the thinkers of
the En ....
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.... David Hume, Jean Le Rond D'alembert, and Immanuel
Kant, opposed fanaticism, but were either agnostic or left room for some
kind of religious faith.
All of the philosophes saw themselves as continuing the work of the
great 17th century pioneers--Francis Bacon, Galileo, Descartes, Leibnitz,
Isaac Newton, and John Locke--who had developed fruitful methods of
rational and empirical inquiry and had demonstrated the possibility of a
world remade by the application of knowledge for human b ....
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