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1 giorno fa · The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
2 giorni fa · Locke was an assiduous book collector and notetaker throughout his life. By his death in 1704, Locke had amassed a library of more than 3,000 books, a significant number in the seventeenth century.
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2 giorni fa · The 17th century was a tumultuous period in Italian history, marked by deep political and social changes. These included the increase of Papal power in the peninsula and the influence of the Catholic Church at the peak of the Counter Reformation , the Catholic reaction against the Protestant Reformation .
28 mar 2024 · Enlightenment, a European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries that emphasized the use of reason to advance understanding of the universe and to improve the human condition. The goals of the Enlightenment were knowledge, freedom, and happiness.
- When and where did the Enlightenment take place?Historians place the Enlightenment in Europe (with a strong emphasis on France) during the late 17th and the 18th centuries, or, more comprehensive...
- What led to the Enlightenment?The roots of the Enlightenment can be found in the humanism of the Renaissance, with its emphasis on the study of Classical literature. The Protest...
- Who were some of the major figures of the Enlightenment?Some of the most important writers of the Enlightenment were the Philosophes of France, especially Voltaire and the political philosopher Montesqui...
- What were the most important ideas of the Enlightenment?It was thought during the Enlightenment that human reasoning could discover truths about the world, religion, and politics and could be used to imp...
- What were some results of the Enlightenment?The French Revolution and the American Revolution were almost direct results of Enlightenment thinking. The idea that society is a social contract...
9 apr 2024 · Benedict de Spinoza (born November 24, 1632, Amsterdam—died February 21, 1677, The Hague) was a Dutch Jewish philosopher, one of the foremost exponents of 17th-century Rationalism and one of the early and seminal figures of the Enlightenment. His masterwork is the treatise Ethics (1677).
12 apr 2024 · Johannes Vermeer (baptized October 31, 1632, Delft, Netherlands—buried December 16, 1675, Delft) was a Dutch artist who created paintings that are among the most beloved and revered images in the history of art. Although only about 36 of his paintings survive, these rare works are among the greatest treasures in the world’s finest museums.
12 apr 2024 · Chapters 20 to 22 retrace how Europe’s religious geography turned into a patchwork of competing states and ideologies in the course of the 16th and 17th century. The first of these chapters is entitled ‘The age of religious wars’, but in reality it looks at religious violence in Europe in general.
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