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| According to many historians, the limits of the Enlightenment have reached most of XVII century, while others prefer to call this era the Age of Reason. Both periods are in any case, united and relatives, and even talking is equally acceptable for both periods as one.
Along the XVI century and XVIII century Europe was embroiled in religious wars. When the political situation stabilized after the Peace of Westphalia (Agreement between Catholics and Protestants, 1648) and the end of the civil war in England, there was an atmosphere of excitement that tended to focus the ideas of faith and mysticism revelations in the "divine", taken individually as the main source of knowledge and wisdom (Enlightenment.) Instead, the Age of Reason then tried to establish a philosophy based on the axiom and absolutism as foundations for knowledge and stability. |
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