Challenges to the Enlightenment

by Academy of Humanism

The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement which began in seventeenth century Europe and espoused an optimistic project: an end to human ignorance and the slavish adherence to ancient text and dogma; the application of scientific principles to solving the world's problems; the elimination of inequality between the sexes; and the advocacy of political rights for all citizens. Modern western society, with its democratic institutions and its reliance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879758694
• ISBN13: 9780879758691
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"