The Age Of Reason By Thomas Paine

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Isaiah Castro
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Age of Reason
The Age of Reason had many different topics and events. Let's start first with Thomas Paine, Thomas Paine was an influential theorist as well as an author whose rise to prominence came during the American Revolution. He was born in England in 1737 but moved to America in 1774. He was imprisoned in France at for speaking against the guillotine. Which made Paine return to America in 1802, where he died in 1809 in New York.
Thomas Paine was considered to be a controversial philosopher that espoused classical liberalism and ideas of Enlightenment. The Enlightenment was the intellectual movement that emphasized human reason, skepticism, and scientific objectivity. Thomas was critical to traditional Christianity. He viewed it as corrupt and rooted for superstition. His pamphlet 'The Age of Reason', which published in the late 1790s, was an intellectual attack on the Christian religion itself. …show more content…

The Age of Reason was a movement that followed hard after the mysticism, religion, and superstition of the middle Ages. The Age of Reason represented a genesis in the way man viewed himself, for the pursuit of his knowledge, and the universe. In this time period, man’s previously held concepts of conduct and thought could now be challenged verbally and in written form. Fears of being labeled a heretic or being burned at the stake were done away with. It was the beginning of an open society where individuals were free to pursue individual happiness and liberty. Politically, the imperial concepts of the medieval world were abandoned. The Age of Reason also included the shorter time period described as the Age of Enlightenment; during this time great changes occurred in scientific thought and exploration. New ideas filled the horizon and man was eager to explore these ideas,

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