1. Enlightenment Rhetoric:
The Age of Reason
GiambattistaVicoOn the Study Methods of
Our Time
&
John Locke Human Understanding
2. Enlightenment Thinking
• Reject superstition
• Sought truth through use of reason
• Viewed world from secular, human centered perspective
• Embraced humanism
• Limitlessness in knowledge – revolutions in science and
philosophy
• Empiricism
• Experimental method
• A belief in human perfectibility through education and
unlimited progress