master Imran

The eighteenth century is called the "Age of Enlightenment ". By this metaphor century looking to spend, through the spirit of the Renaissance and Cartesian the previous century, the triumph of Reason on Darkness (the obscurantism and prejudices ). The Lights are a phenomenon European but French philosophers best crystallize the ideas of the century and give relief to new values, beyond the French Revolution , a lasting mark on the Europe and the world. The main French Enlightenment philosophers are Voltaire , Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Diderot and Montesquieu .