HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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stimulated religious toleration
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a continuation of Papal Authority
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applied reason to the human condition
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fueled democratic institutions
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Early Enlightenment: 1685-1730 The Enlightenment’s important 17th-century precursors included the Englishmen Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes, the Frenchman René Descartes and the key natural philosophers of the Scientific Revolution, including Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Enlightenment produced modern secularized theories of psychology and ethics. The study of science and the investigation of natural phenomena were encouraged, but Enlightenment thinkers also applied science and reason to society’s problems.
Detailed explanation-3: -The greatest figure of the Enlightenment was François-Marie Arouet, known simply as Voltaire. He wrote many pamphlets, novels, plays, letters, essays, and histories, which brought him both fame and wealth. He was especially well known for his criticism of Christianity and his strong belief in religious tolerance.
Detailed explanation-4: -Both scientists and philosophers of this period rejected the ideas of the Middle Ages, which they believed were based on superstition and not reason. They also challenged the authority of the Catholic Church, which had rejected the ideas of Copernicus and Galileo, and were critical of the Divine Right Theory.