Proof my intro?

Question

The Enlightenment, or Age of Reason, of the 18th century was “an intellectual movement based on reason caused by the Scientific Revolution.” The Enlightenment thinkers and philosophes popularized a more secular and rational way of thought and looked to reform many religious and social issues.

philosophes is the french spelling of philosophers

Answer 1

The first sentence is fine.

The second sentence is less awkward this way:

The philosophers of the Enlightenment period popularized a more secular and rational way of thinking and encouraged the reform of religious and social issues.

Answer 2

philosophes is misspelled

"the Scientific Revolution" started in 1543 when Nicolaus Copernicus published his De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) and Andreas Vesalius published his De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human body). It continued through the 19th century.

I suggest you read up on the Age of Reason a bit more to get a better handle on the subject. Otherwise, it is good writing.

Answer 3

Your premise is flawed but generally accepted in educational circles. The genesis of the age of reason arose from separate tracks; such as:
(1) The stratification of social roles was broken by the rise of the mercantile class. This new social construct was Biblically based. “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus”.
(2) The printing press made it possible for the Bible to be read by those outside the clerical class and the elite. Citizens were no longer dependant upon priests to relay God's word. Since Christians were commanded to "Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have", Christians were required to develop a reasoning mind.
(3) Thanks to interpretation of ancient Greek tests by Hispanic-Arabic philosopher Averros, Thomas Aquinas was the first Christian to have access to all surviving Aristolian works which assisted in his development of a natural philosophy of observation, analysis and conclusion. The idea of scientific analysis we owe in good measure to Aquinas’s proposition that our bodies were created by a good God who allowed us to perceive through our five senses just as a clear window allowed us to accurately see the world. The wave from Thomas Aquinas intellectualized Europe.
(5) Medieval Europe was far more cosmopolitan than generally known. "A Frenchman might be king of England, his archbishop of Canterbury might be Greek, a Provencal princess might wed a Spaniard, German or a Pole." Diversity leads to scientific advancement.
(6) The introduction of Indian numeric system rather than the clumsy Roman system made the search for the laws of nature and nature's God more accessible

Answer 4

You need to place the letter "r" in philosophes, before the letter "s"