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A-Z: General definitions: Age of Reason
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A European intellectual movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, also known as the Enlightenment. It sought to promote knowledge and reform society by focussing on what could be understood through reason and logic. A number of prominent philosophers were involved, including Descartes, Newton and Kant.
A European intellectual movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, also known as the Age of Reason. It sought to promote knowledge and reform society by focussing on what could be understood through reason and logic.
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