Additional essay topic
Question 7: the Enlightenment in its social context
Using the week 2 additional readings list and the list below as your starting-points, discuss the social contexts out of which Enlightenment argument emerged. How did these environments influence the philosophes' ideas about reasoned argument, debate and the public sphere'?
We know in the late 1700's and early 1800's that the Age of Reason dawned upon the European civilizations. But from where did this idea of reason sprout? Where did the subject of reason and rationality come from? Why was it that these subjects were so embraced? The following essay will answer and analyse these questions by discussing the change in the understanding of the the public' as we know it today and the role of coffee houses, salons and academic societies and their influences on philosophers.
Social environments such as coffee houses, libraries and salons were fundamental in the discourse of rational and critical......
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