Studying hominids involves a fourth type of detective, paleoanthropologists. Paleoanthropologists specialize in studying the development and culture of the earliest hominids. (Paleo means âancient. â)
The Enlightenment (the age of Enlightenment) is period in Europe characterized with big intellectual and philosophical movement. The another name that describes this period is the Age of reason. The ideas in the age of reason were focused on like progress, tolerance, liberty, fraternity, constitutional government and separation of church and state.
Central to Enlightenment thought were the use and celebration of reason, the power by which humans understand the universe and improve their own condition. The goals of rational humanity were considered to be knowledge, freedom, and happiness. A brief treatment of the Enlightenment follows. For full treatment, see Europe, history of: The Enlightenment. The powers and uses of reason had first been explored by the philosophers of ancient Greece. The Romans adopted and preserved much of Greek culture, notably including the ideas of a rational natural order and natural law.