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A page for the age of enlightenment.

Here we are reading Part IX - The Age of Voltaire from the Story of Civilization to look at Europe from 1715 - 1789

Of special interest in this period is the conflict between Religion and Philosophy.

The age of Reason begins with a special look at the worlds of Louis XIV and Voltaire.

{However, lets start with Louis XIII so we may include the Three Musketeers. There are 8 books in the Musketeer saga}

Remember the words of Kant:

“Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment.”