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Age of Reason
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The Age of Reason saw a separation of philosophy and theology.
Age of Reason = a primarily 18th century movement that further advanced the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions -- especially in Britain, France, Germany, and the American colonies
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This was so characteristic that the French Enlightenment is often called the Age of Reason.
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Age of Reason = a primarily 18th century movement that further advanced the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions
- There once was an Age of Reason, but we've progressed beyond it. (source)
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It was a very peculiar hobby for anyone to have in this age of reason.
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Age of Reason = more commonly called the Age of Enlightenment or The Enlightenment -- 18th century period that further advanced the use of reason in Western civilization
- And when the age of faith was over and the age of reason had come, still the same flow of gold and silver went on; fellowships were founded; lectureships endowed; only the gold and silver flowed now, not from the coffers of the king. (source)
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Timothy was a wiry old laborer, of a type lingering in those times—who had his savings in a stocking-foot, lived in a lone cottage, and was not to be wrought on by any oratory, having as little of the feudal spirit, and believing as little, as if he had not been totally unacquainted with the Age of Reason and the Rights of Man.
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Age of Reason = a primarily 18th century movement that further advanced the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions
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The age of reason, prematurely welcomed by the leaders of the French Revolution two and a half centuries before, had now really arrived.
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Age of Reason = more commonly called the Age of Enlightenment or The Enlightenment -- 18th century period that further advanced the use of reason in Western civilization
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"I was right there in the room when they came up with the idea that a pregnancy could be terminated retroactively once a child reaches the age of reason," says the Admiral.
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age of reason = the age at which children can think critically and logically
- They both saw from the doorway the end of a drama that had began before Jose Arcadio had reached the age of reason. (source)
- It has been proven that at the age of 7 most of us have reached the age of reason-which means we do, at this age, understand & know the difference between right & wrong. (source)
- That notion worked fine at Beaufort High School, where my students had more or less reached the age of reason and could be dealt with and reached by words. (source)
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