Characteristics Of The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment is most identified with its political accomplishments. This era is marked by three political revolutions, which lay at the basis for modern, constitutional democracies: The English Revolution (1688), the American Revolution (1775–83), and the French Revolution (1789–99). In this period, philosophers believe that the political and social world do not undergo to objective scrutiny, and that political and social authorities are still exposed to myths and mysteries and surrounded by obscure traditions. We owe to this period the creation of as new model of government; a government based on many ideas, such as the importance of the consent of the governed, the articulation of, not only the political ideals of freedom and equality and the theory of their institutional realization, but also of a list of basic individual human rights to be respected and realized by any legitimate political system. It is in this era that the articulation and promotion of toleration towards religious diversity as a virtue to be respected in a well

Many of the human and social sciences have, as a matter of fact, their origin in the eighteenth century, and, specifically, during the period of the Enlightenment. This quick development was also a result of a gradual increase in the creation of new scientific tools, such as the model of probabilistic reasoning. An example of these tendencies is the invention of the Encyclopedia, edited by Denis Diderot and Jean La Rond D’Alembert. The work’s aim was to provide a compendium of existing human knowledge, to be transmitted to future generations, for the progress and dissemination of human knowledge. It is a commonplace that the promotion of science by the Enlightenment went hand in hand with the demotion of