https://padlet.com/2010142/u2wyb6257eya resoures for an argumenative essay on the enlightenment en-us 2017-09-12 17:25:41 UTC 2026-03-15 07:47:44 UTC hello@padlet.com 2010142 https://padlet.com/2010142/u2wyb6257eya/wish/187314758 European politics, philosophy, science and communications were radically reoriented during the course of the “long 18th century” (1685-1815) as part of a movement referred to by its participants as the Age of Reason, or simply the Enlightenment
http://www.history.com/topics/enlightenment]]> 2017-09-13 18:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/2010142/u2wyb6257eya/wish/187314758 2010142 https://padlet.com/2010142/u2wyb6257eya/wish/188040954 The Enlightenment’s important 17th-century precursors included the Englishmen Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes, the Frenchman Renee Descartes and the key natural philosophers of the Scientific Revolution, including Galileo, Kepler and Leibniz. Its roots are usually traced to 1680s England, where in the span of three years Isaac Newton published his “Principia Mathematica” (1686) and John Locke his “Essay Concerning Human Understanding” (1689)—two works that provided the scientific, mathematical and philosophical toolkit for the Enlightenment’s major advances.

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]]> 2017-09-15 17:33:36 UTC https://padlet.com/2010142/u2wyb6257eya/wish/188040954 2010142 https://padlet.com/2010142/u2wyb6257eya/wish/188041608 Centered on the dialogues and publications of the French “philosophes” (Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Buffon and Diderot), the High Enlightenment might best be summed up by one historian’s summary of Voltaire’s “Philosophical Dictionary”: “a chaos of clear ideas.” Foremost among these was the notion that everything in the universe could be rationally demystified and cataloged. The signature publication of the period was Diderot’s “Encyclopédie” (1751-77), which brought together leading authors to produce an ambitious compilation of human knowledge.

http://www.history.com/topics/enlightenment]]> 2017-09-15 17:34:59 UTC https://padlet.com/2010142/u2wyb6257eya/wish/188041608 2010142 https://padlet.com/2010142/u2wyb6257eya/wish/188042126 It was also a time of religious (and anti-religious) innovation, as Christians sought to reposition their faith along rational lines and deists and materialists argued that the universe seemed to determine its own course without God’s intervention. Secret societies—the Freemasons, the Bavarian Illuminati, the Rosicrucians—flourished, offering European men (and a few women) new modes of fellowship, esoteric ritual and mutual assistance. Coffeehouses, newspapers and literary salons emerged as new venues for ideas to circulate.


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