The Enlightenment Age or as Thomas Paine, call it The Age of Reason. The
Age of enlightenment, is a philosophical movement that was the cause for many historical events and literary works Robert Wokler was amazed by this movement he put all his findings in one book. This time period was the beginning of manny enlighten minds and critical thinkers that thrusted our understanding forward Adam Smith was a British philosopher and economist who lived from (1723 - 90). He was the first serious attempt to study the nature of capital and the historical development of industry and commerce. He attended the universities of Glasgow and Oxford. Smith was appointed professor of logic in 1751 and then professor of moral philosophy in 1752 at the University of Glasgow. In 1763 he resigned from the university to accept the position of tutor to Henry Scott, 3d duke of Buccleuch (1746–1812), Smith served as commissioner of customs in Edinburgh from 1778 until his death. In 1787 he was also named lord rector of the University of Glasgow. Like Smith, Immanuel Kant, was a critical thinker as well. Kant was a German
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In the book the author talks about Hume's argument that cause and effect cannot be experienced by the senses. In Hume’s arguments he states that we just live moment by moment and that one experience leads on to another. Kant argues that synthetic, rather than analytic thinking is needed, and addresses the problem of thinking synthetically without relying on the empirical method. (Kant, Immanuel and J. M. D. Meiklejohn. Critique of Pure Reason. The Floating Press, 2009. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=313757&site=ehost-live. & Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations. Xist Classics, 2015. Xist Classics. EBSCOhost,