Zusammenfassung der Ressource
ENLIGHTENMENT
- International cosmopolitan movement, domitaded by French
people.
- "Philosophe"
- A spirit of racionalism was to be applied to everything
- Censorship
- Newton and Jonh Locke
- "Brave new world"
- Infuence by de revolutionary thinkers of the 1970
- Movement of intelectualswho dared to know
- Reason, natural law, hope and progress
- Fontenelle "Science was no longer the monopoly of expertsbut part of literature"
- Popularization of Science
- Explorers began to publish books and increasing the number of travel
books that gave accounts of many different cultures
- Travel literature-"Cultural relativism"
- "Some complete their demoralization by
extensive travel, and lose whatever
shreds of religion remainded to them.
Everyday they see a new religion, new
customs, new rites"
- Our knowledge, then, is derived from our
environment, not from heredity; from
reason, not faith
- It envolved over the time, with each succeeding generation becoming more radical as it built on the contributions of the previous one