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Enlightenment was not confined to scientific revolution alone, but humanism and ideas of progress too were its inseparable constituents. Examine.

  • UPSC 2023
  • Enlightenment and Modern Ideas

The Enlightenment, the intellectual, philosophical and cultural movement that swept Western Europe through the 17th and 18th centuries, is often reduced in popular memory to the Scientific Revolution, but this collapses a far broader transformation into only one of its three inseparable strands.

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  • The Scientific Revolution as Foundation, Not the Whole
  • Humanism as an Inseparable Constituent
  • The Idea of Progress as an Inseparable Constituent
  • The Three Strands in Practice
  • Limitations and Contradictions

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