What is the difference between the Age of Enlightenment and the age of reason?

Answer 1

Basically, they are synonyms.

The Age of Enlightenment refers to the 17th century in European philosophy.

Especially Immanuel Kant made Enlightenment age of reason.

Kant defends 'pure reason' against in his view 'impure knowledge' supplied by senses.

In Kant's view 'pure reason' is practiced by 'rational minds' and is a 'faith' independent of sense experience (intuition)

Kant wrote that all our knowledge is relative to human perception and 'reasoning'. We 'see' reality as it appears to us through our senses (filters of perception) and 'thought' (fantasy made into logic like 'rationalism'). So far Kant is defending 'cultural relativism'. Immanuel Kant sees common sense as THE guideline for decisions. But Kant might have had 'moral' reasons to come to his tricky concluson: therefore the only 'truth' is our selfmade 'truth' (there is nothing higher than reason: 'rationalism'). Kant suggests that in the end only 1 selfmade 'truth' is behind 'human reality'. 'Kantian truth' ('rationalism'), fundamentally protestant..

Rationalism was especially very popular under ''protestants'.

Fundamental protestants were hated by catholics, because they used rationalism to suppress emotion.

For that reason many protestants fled to The New World.

Here they removed the original inhabitants (many millions of Red Indians) and at the cost of 8 deaths for 1 slave introduced slavery of black 'human animals'

Better to speak about 'Ages of Reason'. The 2009 recession is end of the 'Ages of Reason'

Answer 2

The Age of Enlightenment refers to an intellectual movement in the 17th and 18th centuries that emphasized reason, science, and individual rights, leading to advancements in philosophy, politics, and society. The age of reason, on the other hand, more broadly refers to a period in history when rational thinking and logical analysis began to shape human understanding and decision-making, which laid the groundwork for the subsequent Enlightenment era.