Reason
Title
Reason
Description
To contemporaries who subscribed to the Enlightenment, the term "reason" was to be contrasted to superstition. Even though Christians, too, believed in reason, they also wanted to make room for the possibility of God’s intervention, particularly in miracles. Such exceptions seemed to Enlightenment adherents to conflict with reason, which they argued demanded evidence to substantiate claims. To this day scholars still dispute whether enlightened thinkers’ faith in reason was so encompassing that it acted as a belief not all that different from religiosity.
Creator
Jean-Baptiste Gautier (engraver)
Louis-Simon Boizot (designer)
Source
Museum of the French Revolution 83.310
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Date
1793-1794
Rights
Museum of the French Revolution
Relation
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/1/|Images de la Révolution française : catalogue du vidéodisque, 1990, 4582
Format
JPEG
Language
French
Identifier
1
Original Format
Engraving
Physical Dimensions
33 x 24.5 cm
Title (French)
La Raison
Citation
Jean-Baptiste Gautier (engraver) and Louis-Simon Boizot (designer), “Reason,” LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION, accessed December 21, 2024, https://revolution.chnm.org/d/1.