enlightenment

The Enlightenment brings two images to mind, one positive and one negative. The positive image is of a period when people in Europe became less bigoted, more secular-minded, more modern and sensible. In other words, it was time when people finally wised up and became more like us in our time. A more negative image also exists. The Enlightenment was a movement of headstrong intellectuals who tried to reduce everything to reason, who believed that …

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