Modon Mohan Gogoi

2018  (back) 1a. why is the enlightenment period called the age of reason ? Ans:- The Enlightenment refers to a period of philosophical trends in western Europe in the eighteenth century. Some of the well-known Enlightenment thinkers include the German philosopher Immanuel Kant and French philosophers Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Their writings are considered to have been influential in bringing down the French monarchy and the establishment of a republic during the French Revolution of 1789.               The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith.  The Enlightenment is also known as the Age of Reason because one of the main ideas of the Enlightenment philosophers was the primacy of reason. Reason was said to be in opposition to superstition, mysticism, and religion, which wer...

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