Age of Reason

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cultural movement historical period intellectual movement

Age of Reason is a term for the Enlightenment, a European intellectual movement emphasizing reason, science, and individualism over tradition and religious authority.

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Label	Occurrences
The Age of Reason	7
Age of Reason canonical	2

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural movement ⓘ historical period ⓘ intellectual movement ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Age of Enlightenment ⓘ surface form: Enlightenment
associatedWith	empiricism ⓘ liberalism ⓘ rationalism ⓘ scientific method ⓘ secularism ⓘ
emphasizes	individualism ⓘ reason ⓘ science ⓘ
follows	Renaissance ⓘ
hasKeyFigure	Adam Smith ⓘ Baron d'Holbach ⓘ David Hume ⓘ Denis Diderot ⓘ Immanuel Kant ⓘ Jean-Jacques Rousseau ⓘ John Locke ⓘ Montesquieu ⓘ Thomas Paine ⓘ Voltaire ⓘ
hasKeyTheme	critique of absolute monarchy ⓘ education reform ⓘ freedom of thought ⓘ natural rights ⓘ progress ⓘ religious tolerance ⓘ separation of church and state ⓘ social contract theory ⓘ
hasMainRegion	Europe ⓘ
influenced	American Revolutionary era ⓘ surface form: American Revolution French Revolution ⓘ constitutionalism ⓘ human rights theory ⓘ modern democracy ⓘ modern science ⓘ
opposes	religious authority ⓘ tradition ⓘ
precedes	Romanticism ⓘ
relatedWork	Critique of Pure Reason ⓘ Encyclopédie ⓘ The Social Contract ⓘ The Wealth of Nations ⓘ Two Treatises of Government ⓘ
timePeriod	17th century ⓘ 18th century ⓘ

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Enlightenment philosophy → hasAlternativeName → Age of Reason ⓘ

British Enlightenment → overlapsWith → Age of Reason ⓘ

Thomas Paine → notableWork → Age of Reason ⓘ