The Enlightenment (1650-1800) (8 h 56 min, 22 mars 1650 ans – 19 h 4 min, 8 janv. 1800 ans)
Description:
The Enlightenment (1650-1800) is even called the age of reason
- In French 1715
- Were based a little bit to the French revolution
• Rationalism – logic, reason as source of knowledge
• Empiricism- knowledge comes through experience
• Criticism- critical thinking, argumentation
• Egalitarianism- everybody is born equal
• Deism- rejection of organized religion
Starting point of the middle class:
• More people were literate
• Good manners, restraint, self-control, and common sense
• Appearances, formal style and elegance
• Coffee houses, tea, chocolate
Neoclassic architecture – Neo means new
Arabs and Greeks who started renaissance in Italy
Advancement of ideas like: progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government and separation of church and state.
Birth of democracy and liberalism, The French revolution 1789-1799 and the American Constitution 1789.
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Date:
8 h 56 min, 22 mars 1650 ans
19 h 4 min, 8 janv. 1800 ans
~ 149 years
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