Political Science · Western Political Thought
Which is the most important component of the intellectual movement called the Enlightenment?
ACapitalism
BScientific revolution
CReason or rationality ✓ Correct
DNationalism
Correct answer: (C) Reason or rationality — The most important component of the Enlightenment was reason or rationality.
Explanation
★The most important component of the Enlightenment was reason or rationality.
★Before it, religion and established norms were the sources of knowledge.
★The Enlightenment shifted the source of knowledge to reason.
★This gave a scientific and secular basis to understanding the world.
★It challenged superstition, dogma and arbitrary authority.
★The scientific revolution fed into it but reason was its core.
★So the defining component is reason or rationality.
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