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The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement in the Western world
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The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement in the Western world during the 17th and 18th century; it was characterized as the age of reason. It was also composed of the scientific revolution, reason, nature, GOD, and man, which developed into a world perception that initiated radical improvements in art, politics, philosophy, theology and science. 1The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe were periods of important and dramatic changes in the way many people saw and understood the world. Not only did people begin to see the physical world as operating in a vastly different way from the way they had previously thought it operated, but also some European people were beginning to believe that the methods for discovering such new information could be applied in such a way that the new knowledge would be more powerfully accurate than knowledge had previously been. The first disciplines to be affected by these...
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