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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historical period
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intellectual movement → philosophical movement → |
| emphasizes |
empirical inquiry
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freedom of thought → individual rights → progress → reason → scientific method → secularism → skepticism of traditional authority → toleration → |
| hasAlternativeName |
Age of Enlightenment
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Age of Reason → the Enlightenment → |
| hasCenter |
Berlin
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Edinburgh → Geneva → London → Paris → |
| hasKeyConcept |
checks and balances
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education reform → freedom of the press → natural rights → popular sovereignty → religious toleration → separation of church and state → social contract → utilitarian concern for happiness → |
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Masonic lodge
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learned society → salon → |
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empirical observation
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public debate → rational criticism → systematic doubt → |
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Encyclopédie
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philosophical treatise → |
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Britain
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France → Germany → North America → Scotland → |
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18th century
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| hasNotableFigure |
Adam Smith
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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
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| historicalSuccessor |
19th-century liberalism
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Romanticism → |
| influenced |
American Revolution
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French Revolution → constitutionalism → human rights theory → laïcité → liberalism → modern democracy → republicanism → separation of powers doctrine → |
| influencedBy |
Renaissance humanism
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Scientific Revolution → early modern natural philosophy → |
| opposes |
absolute monarchy
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censorship → divine right of kings → religious dogmatism → |
| relatedTo |
Deism
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Enlightened absolutism → scientific naturalism → |