International cosmopolitan movement, domitaded by French
people.
"Philosophe"
A spirit of racionalism was to be applied to everything
Censorship
Newton and Jonh Locke
"Brave new world"
Infuence by de revolutionary thinkers of the 1970
Movement of intelectualswho dared to know
Reason, natural law, hope and progress
Fontenelle "Science was no longer the monopoly of expertsbut part of literature"
Popularization of Science
Explorers began to publish books and increasing the number of travel
books that gave accounts of many different cultures
Travel literature-"Cultural relativism"
"Some complete their demoralization by
extensive travel, and lose whatever
shreds of religion remainded to them.
Everyday they see a new religion, new
customs, new rites"
Our knowledge, then, is derived from our
environment, not from heredity; from
reason, not faith
It envolved over the time, with each succeeding generation becoming more radical as it built on the contributions of the previous one