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
Age of Enlightenment
surface form: the Enlightenment
hasCenter Berlin
Edinburgh
Geneva
London, England
surface form: London

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 Great Britain
surface form: Britain

France
Germany
North America
Scotland
hasMainPeriod 18th century
hasNotableFigure Adam Smith
Baron d'Holbach
Benjamin Franklin
Marquis de Condorcet
surface form: 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 Revolutionary era
surface form: 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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Part II: Freedom and the Law influencedBy Enlightenment philosophy
this entity surface form: Enlightenment liberalism