The term "Enlightenment," rooted in an intellectual skepticism to traditional beliefs and dogmas, denotes an "illumined" contrast to the supposed dark and superstitious character of the Middle Ages.

During the Age of Enlightenment, anything was thought possible, and for African Americans, this included freedom and equality, "the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness." Free blacks and ...

This approach is the result of his intellectual background, claims the historian. “He shared the idea commonly held during the Age of Enlightenment, that the enlightened, the scholars knew what was ...

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We now associate these thinkers with the Age of Enlightenment, a period of history that led to the French Revolution and the American War of Independence. Video by Izabela Cardoso & Fernando ...

Anthologies: I Kramnik (Ed), The Portable Enlightenment Reader (1995); S Eliot & B Stern (Eds), The Age of Enlightenment (2 vols, 1979). Exam (70%, duration: 3 hours) in the summer exam period.