ENLIGHTENMENT

International cosmopolitan movement, domitaded by French people.
1. "Philosophe"
  1. A spirit of racionalism was to be applied to everything
    1. Censorship
      1. 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

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