Age of Enlightenment
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Age of Enlightenment
(history) A period of time ranging from part of the 17th century through much of the 18th century, characterized particularly by the importance of logic and reason.
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Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
Harvey, Galileo, Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment.
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
Absolute monarchies are not necessarily authoritarian ; the enlightened absolutists of the Age of Enlightenment were monarchs who allowed various freedoms.
As the Age of Enlightenment dawned, armies began to fight in highly disciplined lines.
Joseph Wright of Derby an artist whose paintings symbolised the struggle between science and religious values in the Age of Enlightenment.