The Enlightenment Period
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What was the main focus of the Enlightenment movement?

  • Advocating for religious fanaticism
  • Applying critical reasoning to every problem (correct)
  • Promoting absolute power of kings
  • Supporting superstition and bigotry

    • Who famously advocated 'dare to know' as a principle of the Enlightenment?

  • Immanuel Kant (correct)
  • Denis Diderot
  • Voltaire
  • Rene Descartes

    • How were most ideas of the Enlightenment spread?

  • Through religious fanaticism
  • Through advocating for absolutism of kings
  • Through promoting superstition and bigotry
  • Through printed books and pamphlets (correct)

    • What did public intellectuals of the Enlightenment oppose?

    <p>Superstition, bigotry, and religious fanaticism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who was the editor of the Encyclopedia, a key figure in the Enlightenment movement?

    <p>Denis Diderot</p> Signup and view all the answers

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