The enlightenment period tends to emphasise _______________ as the supreme virtue(s).?

Question

a. Reason

b. Moderation

c. Societal or communal good over individualism

d. all of the above

Answer 1

d

However, one can only have one supreme virtue. If I had to fill in the blank without having seen the choices, I would have said "reason." Reason presumably leads one to a life of moderation and accommodation. (The romantic period had little patience for these valuable qualities.)

Answer 2

Influence

The Enlightenment occupies a central role in the justification for the movement known as modernism. The neo-classicizing trend in modernism came to see itself as a period of rationality which overturned established traditions, analogously to the Encyclopaediasts and other Enlightenment philosophers. A variety of 20th century movements, including liberalism and neo-classicism, traced their intellectual heritage back to the Enlightenment, and away from the purported emotionalism of the 19th century. Geometric order, rigor and reductionism were seen as Enlightenment virtues. The modern movement points to reductionism and rationality as crucial aspects of Enlightenment thinking, of which it is the heir, as opposed to irrationality and emotionalism. In this view, the Enlightenment represents the basis for modern ideas of liberalism against superstition and intolerance. Influential philosophers who have held this view include Jürgen Habermas and Isaiah Berlin.

Answer 3

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