Enlightenment philosophy

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Enlightenment philosophy was an 18th-century intellectual movement emphasizing reason, individual rights, empirical inquiry, and skepticism of traditional authority in politics, religion, and society.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical period
intellectual movement
philosophical movement
emphasizes empirical inquiry
freedom of thought
individual rights
progress
reason
scientific method
secularism
skepticism of traditional authority
toleration
hasAlternativeName Age of Enlightenment
Age of Reason
the Enlightenment
hasCenter Berlin
Edinburgh
Geneva
London
linked to: London, England

Paris
hasKeyConcept checks and balances
education reform
freedom of the press
natural rights
popular sovereignty
religious toleration
separation of church and state
social contract
utilitarian concern for happiness
hasKeyInstitution Masonic lodge
learned society
salon
hasKeyMethod empirical observation
public debate
rational criticism
systematic doubt
hasKeyPublication Encyclopédie
philosophical treatise
hasKeyRegion Britain
linked to: Great Britain

France
Germany
North America
Scotland
hasMainPeriod 18th century
hasNotableFigure Adam Smith
Baron d'Holbach
Benjamin Franklin
Condorcet
David Hume
Denis Diderot
Immanuel Kant
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Locke
Montesquieu
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
Voltaire
historicalPredecessor Baroque scholasticism
historicalSuccessor 19th-century liberalism
Romanticism
influenced American Revolution
French Revolution
constitutionalism
human rights theory
laïcité
liberalism
modern democracy
republicanism
separation of powers doctrine
influencedBy Renaissance humanism
Scientific Revolution
early modern natural philosophy
opposes absolute monarchy
censorship
divine right of kings
religious dogmatism
relatedTo Deism
Enlightened absolutism
scientific naturalism

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John Locke influenced Enlightenment philosophy
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Unitarianism influencedBy Enlightenment thought
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Immanuel Kant movement Enlightenment philosophy
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Novum Organum influenced Enlightenment thought
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A Vindication of the Rights of Men influencedBy Enlightenment philosophy
Northwest Ordinance influencedBy Enlightenment political thought
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New Culture Movement influencedBy Enlightenment thought
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Treatise on the Origin of Language movement Enlightenment philosophy
Treatise on the Origin of Language influencedBy Enlightenment thought
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Voices of the Peoples in Their Songs influencedBy Enlightenment thought
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Romantic nationalism influencedBy Enlightenment nationalism
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European witch hunts hasDeclineCause Enlightenment skepticism
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What is Enlightenment? mainTopic enlightenment (philosophy)
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Plutarch’s Parallel Lives influenced Enlightenment moral philosophy
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Enlightenment studies includesTopic Enlightenment and religion
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Theodicy influenced Enlightenment philosophy
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Kantianism developedFrom Enlightenment philosophy
Marquis de Sade influencedBy Enlightenment philosophy
Constitution of Troezen of 1827 influencedBy Enlightenment political thought
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First Estate ideologicalOppositionFrom Enlightenment thinkers
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Lutheran orthodoxy followedBy Enlightenment theology
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God Is Not Great influencedBy Enlightenment philosophy
Humanism influenced Enlightenment philosophy
The Right to the Use of the Earth influencedBy Enlightenment liberalism
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Institutions de Physique hasInfluenced Enlightenment philosophy
theological liberalism influencedBy Enlightenment thought
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Solomon Maimon philosophicalSchool Enlightenment philosophy
Melchor Ocampo influencedBy Enlightenment philosophy
Second Discourse philosophicalSchool Enlightenment philosophy
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Kantian metaphysics philosophicalTradition Enlightenment philosophy
Johann August Ernesti movement Enlightenment theology
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Ignacy Potocki influencedBy Enlightenment philosophy
Agrarian Justice influencedBy Enlightenment philosophy
De l'homme philosophicalTradition Enlightenment philosophy
Artiguist revolution influencedBy Enlightenment ideas
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Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos influencedBy Enlightenment philosophy
Antonio de Capmany influencedBy Enlightenment political thought
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Fifth Address influencedBy Enlightenment thought
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