BİREY, ÖZGÜR İRADE VE ÖZGÜR DÜŞÜNCE KAVRAMLARININ LESSING'İN OYUNLARINDAKİ YANSIMALARI

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12. The very word “reason” has a significant place in the history of human mind. However, the dominant powers of the varying systems of social order have monopolized reason by imposing ethnic, religious and feudal allegiances on the individual throughout history. It was the Age of Enlightenment that people started to question those social etiquettes by thinking independently.
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