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a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine
the Enlightenment brought about many humanitarian reforms
How To Use Age of Reason In A Sentence
- It is not as if there is a shortage of reasons to confront the government.
- To Hamann, it was obvious that the Age of Reason - which, to his mind, was an age of deepest darkness - required a prose of almost insoluble opacity.
- There he spoke eloquently ‘of cultivating general friendship, and of bringing collisions of interest to the umpirage of reason rather than of force.’
- In the Age of Reason and Science, gambling and gallantries, of pleasure and entertainment, Casanova has it all, does it all.
- But he em - phatically asserted that the mythical mentality was transcended in the age of reason. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- I think SF (and a lot of other literature) is about the marriage of reason and passion; in fact Kim Stanley Robinson has a lengthy peroration on the subject in The Years of Rice and Salt - he uses the term samadhi to refer to it. The Ghetto Within The Ghetto
- In The Age of Reason, Paine had arguedagainst both atheism and Christianity in favour of a deism which rejects anyappeal to divine revelation.
- We should be most unwise, indeed, were we to cast away the singular blessings of the position in which nature has placed us, the opportunity she has endowed us with of pursuing, at a distance from foreign contentions, the paths of industry, peace, and happiness, of cultivating general friendship, and of bringing collisions of interest to the umpirage of reason rather than of force. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
- It is not as if there is a shortage of reasons to confront the government.
- When he reached the age of reason, I confidently sent him forth to seek his fortune.