Radical Enlightenment

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Radical Enlightenment is a strand of 17th- and 18th-century thought that pushed for thoroughgoing secularism, democracy, and intellectual freedom by radically challenging religious and monarchical authority.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical concept
intellectual movement
philosophical current
advocates democratic governance
freedom of religion
freedom of the press
republicanism
separation of church and state
associatedWith clandestine philosophical literature
underground radical circles
contrastedWith religious Enlightenment currents
describedIn Radical Enlightenment self-linksurface differs
surface form: "Radical Enlightenment" (book by Jonathan Israel)
emphasizes freedom of conscience
freedom of expression
freedom of thought
political equality
popular sovereignty
universal human rights
geographicalScope Great Britain
surface form: Britain

Dutch Republic
Europe
France
hasCharacteristic anticlericalism
atheism or religious heterodoxy
democracy
egalitarianism
intellectual freedom
materialism
rationalism
secularism
hasConceptualOpposition Moderate Enlightenment
hasTimePeriod 17th century
18th century
influencedBy Baruch Spinoza
Denis Diderot
surface form: Diderot

Julien Offray de La Mettrie
surface form: La Mettrie

Pierre Bayle
Baron d'Holbach
surface form: d’Holbach

early modern scientific revolution
influences human rights discourse
modern liberal democracy
republican thought
secular political theory
opposes absolutism
monarchical authority
religious authority
traditional hierarchy
partOf Age of Enlightenment
surface form: Enlightenment
theorizedBy Jonathan Israel
uses reason
scientific method

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Système de la nature relatedMovement Radical Enlightenment
Christianisme dévoilé historicalContext Radical Enlightenment
Radical Enlightenment describedIn Radical Enlightenment self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: "Radical Enlightenment" (book by Jonathan Israel)
Catholic Enlightenment opposedTo Radical Enlightenment
this entity surface form: radical Enlightenment