SOC 202 Midterm: Midterm Review
6 Jul 2016
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A european intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as descartes, locke, and newton, and its prominent exponents include. These ideologies allowed people to believe they could change their social conditions, people worked harder to change their lives. The enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on reason as the primary source of authority and legitimacy, and came to advance ideals such as liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state. In france, the central doctrines of the lumi res were individual liberty and religious tolerance in opposition to an absolute monarchy and the fixed dogmas of the roman. The enlightenment was marked by an emphasis on the scientific method and reductionism along with increased questioning of religious orthodox. A philosophical, intellectual and cultural movement that expanded in both europe and.
