Which best describes the Enlightenment?

a) late seventeenth-century intellectual movement in Europe which was initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics

b) sixteenth-century religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church which resulted in the formation of several new Christian denominations

c) eighteenth-century European philosophical movement that emphasized the preeminence of reason rather than faith

d) a period of intense artistic and intellectual activity, said to be a rebirth of Greco-Roman culture from the mid-fourteenth century to the early seventeenth-century in Europe



Answer :

The Enlightenment was an eighteenth-century European philosophical movement that emphasized the preeminence of reason rather than faith.