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THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE AGE OF REASON :star: - Coggle Diagram
THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE AGE OF REASON
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a golden age
the enlightenment
(intellectual movement)
aim of freeing man from ignorance, superstition
(to keep the common people subjected) through reason, knowledge and science
faith in reason
: reason questioned traditional doctrines and religious assumptions and it is developed by education
Russeau:
THE STAE OF NATURE
during this state men are happy
socierty makes men sad
what is natural is also rational and common to every human being
man's primary state ere at the roota of the interst in exotic and savage civisations, in the figure of the
noble savage
the role of women
active in social and cultural life
: they visited friends, attendedd the theatres and coffee houses where they were previously banned (
still considered sinful
)
woman readers and writers influenced the rise of the novel
stories
about ordinary people of their day
many
early novels were epistolary
: as a consequence of the
London Penny Post
(a new postal service)
access to books increased with the spread of
circulating libraries and book clubs
a new view of the natural world
thinkers not only wanted to understand the world but to imporove it
they
rejected
the Calvinist belief that
every event of life is controlled by God or the Devil
it was seen as the complex system or set of principles divinely ordained and manifested in the creation
everything can be proved and rational
the
English garden
was invented: a carefully planned space that expressed values such as
freedom, simplicity and balance
all over europe
the harmony between man and nature