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Two powerful institutions during the Age of Reason in the Enlightenment were the Catholic Church and the monarchy. The Catholic Church held significant authority over morality, education, and politics, while monarchies wielded political power and influenced societal norms. Both institutions faced increasing challenges to their authority as Enlightenment ideas of reason, individualism, and progress spread.

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Who were the key figures in the enlightenment'?

In addition to the French, there was a very significant Scottish Enlightenment (key figures were Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Adam Smith, and Thomas Reid) and a very significant German Enlightenment (die Aufklärung, key figures of which include Christian Wolff, Moses Mendelssohn, G.E.


How was the Romantic movement a reaction against the dominant ideas of the Enlightenment?

Enlightenment was all about science and reason and very empirical and intellectual and academic. Romanticism was all about feelings and it was a backlash against reasoning. It was about experiencing life as you saw it - hence the explosion in art, music and poetry.


What is the difference between the Age of Enlightenment and the age of reason?

Basically, they are synonyms.The Age of Enlightenment refers to the 17th century in European philosophy.Especially Immanuel Kant made Enlightenment age of reason.Kant defends 'pure reason' against in his view 'impure knowledge' supplied by senses.In Kant's view 'pure reason' is practiced by 'rational minds' and is a 'faith' independent of sense experience (intuition)Kant wrote that all our knowledge is relative to human perception and 'reasoning'. We 'see' reality as it appears to us through our senses (filters of perception) and 'thought' (fantasy made into logic like 'rationalism'). So far Kant is defending 'cultural relativism'. Immanuel Kant sees common sense as THE guideline for decisions. But Kant might have had 'moral' reasons to come to his tricky concluson: therefore the only 'truth' is our selfmade 'truth' (there is nothing higher than reason: 'rationalism'). Kant suggests that in the end only 1 selfmade 'truth' is behind 'human reality'. 'Kantian truth' ('rationalism'), fundamentally protestant..Rationalism was especially very popular under ''protestants'.Fundamental protestants were hated by catholics, because they used rationalism to suppress emotion.For that reason many protestants fled to The New World.Here they removed the original inhabitants (many millions of Red Indians) and at the cost of 8 deaths for 1 slave introduced slavery of black 'human animals'Better to speak about 'Ages of Reason'. The 2009 recession is end of the 'Ages of Reason'


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Scientists, literary men, and thinkers believed in the supremacy of reason. They demanded practical changes against injustice and so that people were considered as equal. They often attacked the government, the church, and the judicial systems of their country.I consider Montesquieu's theory very important. He claimed that the judicial, executive and legislative branches of government should be separated.I also found Rousseau's Social Contract one of the most important theories. He described a society in which each person could keep personal freeedom while at the same time behaving as a loyal member of of a community. =freedom is obedience to law. He also demanded the social equality of human beings.


What is Zeus's personality?

Zeus was the supreme god and ruler of Olympus. Zeus was considered mighty, glorious, awesome and wise, however, he was very foolish and naive when it came to hiding his love affairs. Zeus was a lover of women for sure. Zeus was also very powerful, very jealous, and strong. He also only thought about his self..." Me Me ME ME ME"!