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EastWind [94]
3 years ago
10

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PSYCHO15rus [73]3 years ago
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The eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophers believed that society could best achieve progress through "rational thought and pragmatism", since these thinkers called into question the blind faith many people had in monarchy and God. 
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