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No brief summary can do [[justice]] to the [[diversity]] of enlightened thought in 18th-century Europe. Because it was a [[value]] [[system]] rather than a set of shared [[belief]]s, there are many contradictory trains to follow. In his famous essay "What is Enlightenment?" (1784), Immanuel Kant described it simply as freedom to use one's own [[intelligence]].[7] More broadly, the Enlightenment period is marked by increasing empiricism, scientific rigor, and reductionism, along with increasing questioning of religious orthodoxy.
No brief summary can do [[justice]] to the [[diversity]] of enlightened thought in 18th-century Europe. Because it was a [[value]] [[system]] rather than a set of shared [[belief]]s, there are many contradictory trains to follow. In his famous essay "What is Enlightenment?" (1784), Immanuel Kant described it simply as freedom to use one's own [[intelligence]].[7] More broadly, the Enlightenment period is marked by increasing empiricism, scientific rigor, and reductionism, along with increasing questioning of religious orthodoxy.
A variety of 19th-century movements, including liberalism and neo-classicism, traced their intellectual heritage back to the Enlightenment.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment]
A variety of 19th-century movements, including liberalism and neo-classicism, traced their intellectual heritage back to the Enlightenment.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment]
==Quote==
We recognize the impossibility of fully [[translating]] the [[language]] of the [[concepts]] of [[divinity]] and [[eternity]] into the [[symbols]] of the language of the [[finite]] concepts of the [[mortal]] [[mind]]. But we know that there dwells within the [[human]] mind a [[fragment of God]], and that there sojourns with the human [[soul]] the [[Spirit of Truth]]; and we further know that these [[spirit]] forces conspire to enable [[material]] man to grasp the [[reality]] of spiritual [[values]] and to comprehend the [[philosophy]] of [[universe]] [[meaning]]s.[http://urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/foreword.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/foreword.html&line=1332#mfs]
==References==
==References==
# John Locke claims in his book, The Second Treatise of Government, that man was endowed with reason and hence has the right to decide the form of government that he should be under, while Jean Jacques Rousseau claims that reason is what has led man astray from the state of happiness and bliss that he led under nature.
# John Locke claims in his book, The Second Treatise of Government, that man was endowed with reason and hence has the right to decide the form of government that he should be under, while Jean Jacques Rousseau claims that reason is what has led man astray from the state of happiness and bliss that he led under nature.
