The Age of Enlightment Flashcards
What was The Age of Enlightenment?
A group of scientists, writers and philosophers.
What did the Age of Enlightenment want to do?
Explain everything with experiments, reason and experiments.
Why did the Age of Enlightenment want to explain everything with experiments, reason and science?
-To free people from their superstitions.
-To get to the source of the problem of humanity, like hunger, disease, violence and death and improve life for everybody.
- For all people to be able to criticize, have their opinion and speak freely about their convictions.
What was the “Enlightenment”?
A term of contemporaries of the 17th and 18th century.
What did The Age of Enlightenment express?
They expressed their wish to go from dark Middle Ages to a brighter future.
In the Middle Ages and before The Age of Enlightenment, what was explained by supernatural powers or gods will?
Thunder storms, disease and inequality between people.
What was the most important idea of The Age of Enlightenment?
It was that every human being could act and think reasonably.
What did the church and the kings want to be?
They wanted to be the only ones that could decide what is right and wrong.
How did the church and the kings react to the Age of Enlightenment?
The church and kings were then challenged.
What was promoted during The Age of Enlightenment?
Freedom and equality were promoted, faith was driven away.
