Verkkothe enlightenment was the age in which the world became modern, challenging tradition in favor of reason, freedom, and critical inquiry. Verkkotaking as the core of the enlightenment the aspiration for intellectual progress, and the belief in the power of such progress to improve human society. A very short introduction offers a concise historical introduction to the enlightenment as an intellectual movement of eighteenth. Verkkoin the 17th and 18th centuries, a bold movement swept across europe, which introduced the idea that you could challenge authority, tradition, and centuries of established thought. Known as the enlightenment, it inspired an entire generation. Verkkothe introduction begins with a brief account of immanuel kant’s treatment of the concept of enlightenment in his essays idea for a universal history with a.
