Enlightenment’s Faith in Human Progress The intellectual movement that swept across Europe and its colonies in the mid and late 18th century is called Enlightenment. It is known as the “Age of Discovery”, because many advance in both science and global exploration greatly expanded human knowledge and confidence. Not everyone had confidence in progressing, but for the most part those involved in the process of gaining human progress had no doubt that it would …showed first 75 words of 902 total…

…showed last 75 words of 902 total…their results of ideas. Today society is changing everyday. Laws play a big factor in this. It tells us what we can and cannot do. It is the enforcing system that keeps society moving. Knowledge has changed for the better expanding what the human body can do. In the Enlightenment many philosophers had vast knowledge that led the upward march of progress. In the end though, the Enlightenment was wildly successful as a critical movement.