Why Do Many Historians and Philosophers Consider the Enlightenment to Be

question 35

Multiple Choice

Why do many historians and philosophers consider the Enlightenment to be the origin of modernity?

• A) It represented the first time that philosophy and natural sciences were taken seriously as pursuits of true intellectual value.
• B) It was the first time that governments began to take the work of humanistic scholars seriously and apply philosophy to social and political reform.
• C) It demonstrated that political and religious leaders could not ignore or simply repress the intellectual and social movements around them.
• D) It advanced the secularization of European society and the idea that human reason, rather than theological doctrine, should govern social and political life.

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