age of reason
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age of reason¹
noun ages of reason
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Seven years of age, at which age a person is morally liable for the sins that they commit.
Book 1:
Reason alone teaches us to know good and bad. . . . Before the age of reason we do good and bad without knowing it, and there is no morality in our actions. . . . A child wants to upset everything he sees; he smashes, breaks everything he can reach.
Book 4:
We hold that no child who dies bef
Similar: age of discretion
- Age at which a person is able to distinguish right from wrong and make their own decisions.
proper noun
- Alternative letter-case form of Age of Reason In Mozart, The Dramatist, Brigid Brophy argues that Mozart's music is epitomal of the age of reason. Tightly constructed, elaborately designed, it is complete unto itself. Like the graphic balance in a Beardsley print, or the perfectly weighted epigram of Oscar Wilde, the triumph is in the perfect u
Age of Reason²
proper noun the Age of Reason · age of reason
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Synonym of Age of Enlightenment
It suited some thinkers in the eighteenth-century Age of Reason to look down on the Middle Ages as a primitive and backward time when men believed that the world was flat.
Similar: Age of Enlightenment
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noun age at which a person is morally liable for the sins that they commit
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noun age at which a person is able to distinguish right from wrong
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