The Enlightenment, an intellectual movement in late 17th and 18th century Europe, taught society to put faith in the logic of man and his reasoning. ... Philosophers taught to challenge all conventional standards (Hampson 47). The Enlightenment spread to France from northern Europe and created writers such as Voltaire and Diderot questioned every officials authority (Kirchberger x). ...

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