The Enlightenment

movement in the 17th and 18th centuries that emphasized man's ability to reason

The Enlightenment (; ; ; ) was an eighteenth century movement in European and American philosophy — some classifications also include 17th century philosophy (usually called the  Age of Reason). The term can more narrowly refer to the intellectual movement of The Enlightenment, which advocated reason as the primary basis of authority. Developed in France, Britain and Germany, it influenced the whole of Europe including Russia and Scandinavia. The era is marked politically by governmental consolidation, nation creation, greater rights for the common people, and a diminuation of the influence of authoritarian institutions such as the nobilities role and power.
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A philosophical movement of the 18th century that emphasized the use of reason to scrutinize previously accepted doctrines and traditions which it called "superstition."  The Enlightenment philosophy encouraged the American and French revolutionary overthrow of aristocracies and replaced it with the dream of science liberating  us from the scourge of one human's inhumanity to another.  Postmodernism is disillusioned with the power of the Enlightenment dream to bring us to this utopia and points, among other things, to the science behind the Nazi slaughter of the Jews in World War II.

Eng: the enlightenment
Urdu: سترھویں اور اٹھارویں صدی کی فلسفیانہ اور ثقافتی تحریک جس میں مسلمہ عقائد پر گرفت کی گئی ۔