WORLD HISTORY

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’s core tenet was that natural law could be used to examine and understand all aspects of society. The Enlightenment’s leaders believed that by using scientific methods, they could explain the laws of society and human nature.

Detailed explanation-3: -Despite the confidence in and enthusiasm for human reason in the Enlightenment – it is sometimes called “the Age of Reason” – the rise of empiricism, both in the practice of science and in the theory of knowledge, is characteristic of the period.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Age of Enlightenment or the Enlightenment, also known the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries global influences and effects.