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One of our most renowned and outstanding historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual motion that laid the building blocks for today's world. Liberty and equality. Human rights. Flexibility of thought and appearance. Perception in reason and progress. The value of clinical inquiry. They are just some of the ideas that were conceived and developed during the Enlightenment, and which changed forever the intellectual surroundings of the , the burkha. Spanning more than 100 years of background, Anthony Pagden traces the roots of this seminal movement, displaying how Enlightenment principles directly inspired modern culture, making possible a secular, tolerant, and, most importantly, cosmopolitan world. Everyone can agree on its impact. But in the end, precisely what was Enlightenment? A cohesive philosophical job? A discrete time frame in the life span of the mind when the superstitions of days gone by were overthrown and reason and equality came up to the fore? Or an open-ended intellectual process, a means of looking at the world and the human condition, that sustained long after the eighteenth century ended? An obvious and compelling reason of the philosophical underpinnings of today's world, The Enlightenment is a scintillating portrait of an interval, a critical moment in time in history, and a trend in thought that continues even today.
