Enlightenment philosopher

An Enlightenment philosopher is a thinker from the 17th–18th centuries who emphasized reason, individual rights, and empirical inquiry to challenge traditional authority and advance ideas about politics, science, and human nature.

Observed surface forms (8)

• Scottish Enlightenment figure ×6
• Enlightenment figure ×4
• liberal thinker ×3
• Enlightenment intellectual ×1
• Enlightenment scholar ×1
• Italian Enlightenment historian ×1
• Italian Enlightenment philosopher ×1
• Scottish philosopher ×1

Instances (25)

• David Home via concept surface "Scottish Enlightenment figure"
• Mill via concept surface "liberal thinker"
  surface form: John Stuart Mill
• Immanuel Kant
• David Hume
• Francis Hutcheson via concept surface "Scottish Enlightenment figure"
• William Godwin
• Joseph Johnson via concept surface "Enlightenment figure"
• Louis de Jaucourt via concept surface "Enlightenment figure"
• Voltaire
• Moses Mendelssohn
• Christian Thomasius
• Charles-Louis
  surface form: Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu
• Adam Ferguson via concept surface "Scottish Enlightenment figure"
• Hugh Blair via concept surface "Scottish Enlightenment figure"
• Friedrich Nicolai via concept surface "Enlightenment intellectual"
• Albrecht von Haller via concept surface "Enlightenment scholar"
• Thomas Reid via concept surface "Scottish philosopher"
• Henry Home, Lord Kames
• Heinrich Marx via concept surface "liberal thinker"
• Louisa Ulrika of Prussia via concept surface "Enlightenment figure"
• Ueki Emori via concept surface "liberal thinker"
• Johann Gottfried Herder
• Vico via concept surface "Italian Enlightenment philosopher"
• Anders Johan von Höpken via concept surface "Enlightenment figure"
• William Robertson via concept surface "Scottish Enlightenment figure"