UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2010 · Q5(a) · 20 marks
“…he (Voltaire) was living in the Age of Enlightenment … . The age itself was not enlightened.“ —E. Kant.
- Chapter
- Enlightenment and Modern ideas
- Topic
- The Enlightenment: Ideas and Character
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