A Study of the Enlightenment

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The paper examines how the age of Enlightenment is a remarkable period in human history. The writer proposes that never before, not even in the era of Arabic and Greco-Roman philosophers, has there been such strong influences predisposing an intellectual revolution. The paper describes how the Renaissance had ushered in a new way of looking at the world, but those working within the Enlightenment period worked to define new modes of thought or clarify new directions for accepted areas of discourse. This paper briefly outlines why these topics are critical to modern thinking.

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"Alan Charles Kors' expansive Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment is difficult to describe in brief; the text contains more than three hundred individual articles on the enlightenment and the wide range of influences that both contributed to and were affected by the Enlightenment period. The scope of these many articles reflects upon not just the Enlightenment period but also help define and describe how change affects all human beings, regardless of their social and cultural circumstances. The Age of Enlightenment is a remarkable period in human history. Never before, not even in the era of Arabic and Greco-Roman philosophers, had there been such strong influences predisposing an intellectual revolution."

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