Enlightenment

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Enlightenment

By the “Enlightenment” is meant the eighteenth-century international movement in thought, characterized by a faith in universal human rationality and a skeptical attitude to traditional dogmas and ancient authorities. A noteworthy feature of this movement is the absence from it of any sustained discourse of race. Often thought of as rationalist secularism, Enlightenment refers to a loosely configured constellation of ideas, including reason, rationality, universality, cosmopolitanism, and independence of individuals from supernatural power. Because it brought about an uneven decline of ontological truth and divine/ cosmological power over human beings, the birth of Enlightenment in 18th-century Europe liberated ...