2007-02-06 10:27:18 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think we are just beginning to know what it means
2007-02-06 10:30:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oooh, you should take a philosophy of science class - you'll get some really interesting discussions on this.
It seems in the Renaissance, people believed that truths could be reasoned or found empirically.
Then Einstein came along with his theory of relativity and suddenly the world began to view all sorts of truths as being "just relative" too. I think perhaps the age of reason started to decline as the age of relativity increased.
2007-02-06 18:33:49 · answer #2 · answered by daisyk 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some have yet to discover it on this site.
Age of Reason - defined by the Catholic church as that period of human life at which persons are deemed to begin to be morally responsible. This, as a rule, happens at the age of seven, or thereabouts.
The Age of Reason was also a philosophical treatise critical of the Bible written by the 18th Century British intellectual and American Founding Father Thomas Paine (1790).
Another name for the Enlightenment - philosophical movement of the 18th century that emphasized the use of reason to scrutinize previously accepted doctrines and traditions and that brought about many humanitarian reforms.
The Brittania Encylopedia defines it as European intellectual movement of the 17th–18th century in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and man were blended into a worldview that inspired revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and politics. Central to Enlightenment thought were the use and celebration of reason. For Enlightenment thinkers, received authority, whether in science or religion, was to be subject to the investigation of unfettered minds. In the sciences and mathematics, the logics of induction and deduction made possible the creation of a sweeping new cosmology. The search for a rational religion led to Deism; the more radical products of the application of reason to religion were skepticism, atheism, and materialism. The Enlightenment produced modern secularized theories of psychology and ethics by men such as John Locke and Thomas Hobbes, and it also gave rise to radical political theories. Locke, Jeremy Bentham, J.-J. Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Thomas Jefferson all contributed to an evolving critique of the authoritarian state and to sketching the outline of a higher form of social organization based on natural rights. One of the Enlightenment's enduring legacies is the belief that human history is a record of general progress.
2007-02-06 18:33:19 · answer #3 · answered by DAVID C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's here but most people are kept in the dark by the powerful just as in the ages preceding it. Reason is being used by the conspirators to bring the populations of the world into subjection to them.
2007-02-06 18:32:58 · answer #4 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm waiting for the age of "reason" like the christians wait for the second coming....
2007-02-06 18:32:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's been trying to happen for a long time, but too many keep fighting it off...
2007-02-06 18:32:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its barely coming to us cause there are still too many morons out there
2007-02-06 18:31:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's just getting started
2007-02-06 18:31:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sure hasn't come to R&S yet.
2007-02-06 18:30:11 · answer #9 · answered by Holly Marie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Believe me we are CENTURIES away from it.......
2007-02-06 18:31:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋