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Not an age of reason, but a revolt against rationalism. (Peter Gay) Discuss this characterisation of the Enlightenment. There is a carving by Giovanni Lapi that depicts Justice rejecting the death penalty1, this is a simple characterisation of the Enlightenment, taking one of its many aspects and displaying it in a plain form. The Enlightenment, which can, for argument's sake, be given the epoch of 1750-1800, is the movement that helped to change the outlook humans have on the world. Peter Gay asserts that the movement was spurned from the dissatisfaction contemporaries had with the previous period of intellectual thought: rationalism. The quest here is to discover what the Enlightenment was, and whether or not it was a movement bent on the rejection of rationalism. Benedictus Spinoza is a prime example of a rationalist, writing most of his works in the 1660s and 1670s. His book Ethics, Demonstrated in the Fashion...

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