LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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By dismissing all knowledge from outside Europe
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By questioning the nature of scientific method
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By rejecting the divine right of kings
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By emphasizing the idea that gathering knowledge together can lead to human improvement
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Detailed explanation-1: -The editors of the encyclopedia believed that all knowledge was interconnected. The Enlightenment reinforced the encyclopedic urge to catalog, to classify, and to order the existing wealth of knowledge by means of reason.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Encyclopédie, Ou Dictionnaire Raisonné Des Sciences, Des Arts Et Des Métiers, often referred to simply as Encyclopédie or Diderot’s Encyclopedia, is a twenty-eight volume reference book published between 1751 and 1772 by André Le Breton and edited by translator and philosopher Denis Diderot.
Detailed explanation-3: -The aim of the Encyclopédie was to gather all available knowledge, to examine it critically and rationally, and to use it for social advancement. The subtitle, translated from French to English, reads ‘A Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts’.
Detailed explanation-4: -The salons and the Encyclopedia helped spread Enlightenment ideas to edu-cated people all over Europe. Enlightenment ideas also eventually spread through newspapers, pamphlets, and even political songs.