Was The Enlightenment Really The Age of Reason?

"Reasonable instincts do not work, but experiments, practices, and mentoring can evolve gradually from one insight to another," says Emanuel Kant. Kant's rational view is that it is the power to evolve and is always based on previous insights. Enlightenment is a historical period and refers to the intellectual movement that dominated Europe in the 18th century. To solve this problem, let's take a look at the two texts. An 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant and a 20th century philosopher Michel Foucault's "The Enlightenment" article "Answer to the question: What is enlightenment?"

59 The age of enlightenment is also called era of reason and refers to the time to lead the movement of ideology called enlightenment. During enlightenment, people insisted rationality as a means of establishing authoritative aesthetics, ethics, government and even religion. Some people believe that the reasons allow people to get an objective truth about reality - <http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Age_of_Enlightenment> (May 5, 2010 Day access). It can be said that 60 Hobbes, Rock and Rousseau between them made the most important contribution to the development of liberalism by announcing some pioneering work on liberalism. These works are T Hobbes Leviathan, J Locke's citizen government's two papers, J Rousseau Social Contract. Later philosophers such as Kant and Rawls further developed these views. The focus is different from philosophers and philosophers, but the central idea of ​​social contract remains unchanged.

Romanticism as a reaction to enlightenment is called a period of reason or spiritual enlightenment, a secular intellectual movement that looks like a secular interpretation. Enlightenment began in 1687 and announced the "principle" of Sir Isaac Newton, who ended in the French Revolution (Fiero 134) in 1789. The era of romanticism is a response to rationalism of enlightenment. The romantic exercise began in 1760 and ended in 1871. "Reasonable instincts do not work, but experiments, practices, and guidance are necessary to gradually evolve from one insight to another," Emmanuel Kant said. Kant's rational view is that it is the power to evolve and is always based on previous insights. Enlightenment is a historical period and refers to the intellectual movement that dominated Europe in the 18th century. To solve this problem, I will see two textbooks.