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The development of the Enlightenment.
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT The Background for the Thoughts One could say that the background for the time of Enlightenment comes all the way back from Antiquity. The cornerstone for the Enlightenment-way-of-thinking could have been placed when Thomas Aquinas recovered the Aristotelian logic in the 13th century. That particular logic was used to defend the dogmas of Christianity a couple of centuries later in the hands of other thinkers as they tried to replace every aspect of faith with logic. These thinkers were known as "scholastics" and Voltaire, one of the most influential philosophers of Enlightenment who we are going to get to know better later, often referred to them as "doctors", by which he meant "doctors of theology". The Course of Politics and Economy During the late Middle Ages peasants had started moving from the rural estates to the towns in search of increased freedom and economic prosperity: this...
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