The intellectual tradition of the European Enlightenment, which began in the seventeenth century and produced its greatest works in the eighteenth, i… - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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The intellectual tradition of the European Enlightenment, which began in the seventeenth century and produced its greatest works in the eighteenth, is based on critical reasoning. It employs facts instead of faith, evidence instead of tradition. Morality in this worldview is determined by human beings, not by an outside force.