Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • The Enlightenment: Intellectual Movement

    Uploaded by

    Sally Potter Malfoy
    78 views1 page
    The document discusses the Enlightenment, an intellectual movement of the 17th-18th centuries that aimed to free man's mind through knowledge and science. It questioned traditional doctrines and religious assumptions, using reason to achieve happiness. Key figures like Isaac Newton and John Locke developed theories during this period that became a catalyst for social and political change.

    Original Description:

    appunti di inglese

    Original Title

    the enlightment

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Report this Document
    The document discusses the Enlightenment, an intellectual movement of the 17th-18th centuries that aimed to free man's mind through knowledge and science. It questioned traditional doctrines and religious assumptions, using reason to achieve happiness. Key figures like Isaac Newton and John Locke developed theories during this period that became a catalyst for social and political change.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    78 views1 page

    The Enlightenment: Intellectual Movement

    Uploaded by

    Sally Potter Malfoy
    The document discusses the Enlightenment, an intellectual movement of the 17th-18th centuries that aimed to free man's mind through knowledge and science. It questioned traditional doctrines and religious assumptions, using reason to achieve happiness. Key figures like Isaac Newton and John Locke developed theories during this period that became a catalyst for social and political change.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    of 1

    from ignorance, superstition and

    obscurantism
    that developed in the 17th and 18th centuries with the aim of freeing man's mind
    through knowledge and science
    intellectual movement
    was characterised by faith in reason in order to achieve happiness

    the Enlightenment it questioned traditional doctrines especially religious assumptions

    it became a catalyst of social and political


    was developed by education
    change

    reason there was many theories


    that developed by Isaac Newton and John
    Locke

    the critique of tradition led to creation of an alternative ideal the state of nature

    the thinkers aimed at discovering the original natural state

    You might also like