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October 24, 2017
By Emma Everts
The Enlightenment was a new intellectual movement that stressed reason, thought, an power of individuals to solve problems. The Enlightenment can be known as the Age of Reason, and its movement reached its peak in the mid 1700s, as it brought great change to many aspects of Western civilization. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke influenced many ideas of the Enlightenment, and therefore they came to very different conclusions about government and human nature. Most philosophes believed that reason, science, and art would improve life for all people. During the Enlightenment, certain philosophes fought for women's education, and this led to the grow of women's rights to get to where we are now. New discoveries in science and technology were a great effect of the Enlightenment.
The Enlightenment was a new intellectual movement that stressed reason, thought, an power of individuals to solve problems. The Enlightenment can be known as the Age of Reason, and its movement reached its peak in the mid 1700s, as it brought great change to many aspects of Western civilization. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke influenced many ideas of the Enlightenment, and therefore they came to very different conclusions about government and human nature. Most philosophes believed that reason, science, and art would improve life for all people. During the Enlightenment, certain philosophes fought for women's education, and this led to the grow of women's rights to get to where we are now. New discoveries in science and technology were a great effect of the Enlightenment.
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