Enlightenment (religious)

The Enlightenment was a religious movement in the 1700s that focused on the idea that reason and science should be used to learn about the world. People had questions about religion and the world around them, and the Enlightenment encouraged them to use their own minds and study things scientifically to answer those questions. This view encouraged people to think for themselves, rather than just accept beliefs that had been handed down from generations before. It represented a change from relying on tradition and authority to a more open-minded, rational way of thinking. Enlightenment thinkers also believed that everyone had an innate ability to think and reason, and that it was important to find and use this ability.