LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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A period in the 18th century that celebrated industry
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The revelation of religious truths through meditation
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The power given to absolute monarchs by God
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A period in which reason was celebrated as enabling human knowledge and possibly human perfection
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Enlightenment – the great ‘Age of Reason’ – is defined as the period of rigorous scientific, political and philosophical discourse that characterised European society during the ‘long’ 18th century: from the late 17th century to the ending of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on the value of human happiness, the pursuit of knowledge obtained by means of reason and the evidence of the senses, and ideals such as natural law, liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state.
Detailed explanation-3: -European politics, philosophy, science and communications were radically reoriented during the course of the “long 18th century” (1685-1815) as part of a movement referred to by its participants as the Age of Reason, or simply the Enlightenment.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: The Enlightenment is also known as the Age of Reason because one of the main ideas of the Enlightenment philosophers was the primacy of reason. Reason was said to be in opposition to superstition, mysticism, and religion, which were all important ideas from the Middle Ages.