The Enlightenment The eighteenth century's most exciting intellectual movement is called the Enlightenment. ... The turn toward what became known by 1750 as the Enlightenment began in the late seventeenth century. ... The French philosophes were the most outspoken and most radical of the century, and to this day when thinking of the Enlightenment, France is the first to come to mind. Late in the eighteenth century, Kant gave the most succinct definition of the Enlightenment: bringing "light into the dark corners of mind," dispelling ignorance, prejudice, and superstition. ... To t...

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The following essays, which were the first of the Goodrich Lecture Series at Wabash College, examine the concept of liberty as it has been understood from antiquity through the twentieth century. ... The sixteenth century witnessed the emergence of philosophies of liberty opposed to those found in antiquity and the Middle Ages. ... The clearest sixteenth-century defender of the older concepts of liberty was Richard Hooker, who maintained that liberty, properly exercised, requires men to act in conformance with the traditional social, political, and religious orders, which enable them to serve...

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The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement occurring in Europe throughout the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ... After in depth analysis of economies in centuries before, he came to the conclusion that getting rid of mercantilist monopolies and restrictions would give people more incentive to produce more product. ...

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Tartuffe as a Reflection of Social Change Seventeenth century Europe was a time of burgeoning change in the framework of society. The ideas of independent thinking of the Renaissance were taking hold; the era of uninformed, illiterate masses unquestioningly following the dictates of the Church, ...

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Social and technological change in the seventeenth century brought about the greatest change to a seemingly ordinary concept that everyone experiences everyday- thought. ... A change in America from the very beliefs that founded the country with European settlers, a change in the world that brought new understanding and logical thinking to the masses, a change so great that its effect has remained permanent throughout the centuries. ...

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History 185 Test #2 04-01-03 The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the era that paved the way for the creation of our modern day governments and societies, was an era of political and social revolutions. ... The Bourbon king Louis XIV, the powerful monarch of the early seventeenth century (1661-1715), had been the most successful absolute monarch in history, but his grandiose imperial ambitions led to massive military failure and had left his country in economic ruin. ... This code was his crowning achievement and a masterpiece of law, in which he and his commissions filtered th...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate