Encyclopédistes

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Enlightenment thinkers French philosophical circle group of writers intellectual movement

The Encyclopédistes were a group of 18th-century French Enlightenment thinkers, writers, and scholars who collaborated on the Encyclopédie to promote reason, secular knowledge, and intellectual reform.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Encyclopedists	1
Encyclopédistes canonical	1
Enlightenment philosophes	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Enlightenment thinkers ⓘ French philosophical circle ⓘ group of writers ⓘ intellectual movement ⓘ
aim	critique of traditional authority ⓘ intellectual reform ⓘ promotion of reason ⓘ promotion of secular knowledge ⓘ
associatedWith	Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot NERFINISHED ⓘ Baron d’Holbach NERFINISHED ⓘ Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu NERFINISHED ⓘ Claude Adrien Helvétius NERFINISHED ⓘ Denis Diderot NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean le Rond d’Alembert NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean-Jacques Rousseau NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis de Jaucourt NERFINISHED ⓘ Voltaire NERFINISHED ⓘ Étienne Bonnot de Condillac NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	France ⓘ
editor	Denis Diderot NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean le Rond d’Alembert NERFINISHED ⓘ
field	literature ⓘ philosophy ⓘ political thought ⓘ religious criticism ⓘ science ⓘ
genreOfWork	encyclopedic project ⓘ
influenced	French Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ modern liberal thought ⓘ secularism in Europe ⓘ
influencedBy	Francis Bacon NERFINISHED ⓘ Isaac Newton NERFINISHED ⓘ John Locke NERFINISHED ⓘ
language	French ⓘ
location	Paris ⓘ
mainWork	Encyclopédie NERFINISHED ⓘ
movement	Enlightenment NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableIdea	application of reason to social and political life ⓘ systematic organization of human knowledge ⓘ
opposed	absolutist monarchy ⓘ censorship ⓘ religious intolerance ⓘ
period	18th century ⓘ
startTime	1740s ⓘ
supported	freedom of the press ⓘ freedom of thought ⓘ scientific method ⓘ separation of church and state ⓘ

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

Discours préliminaire de l’Encyclopédie → associatedWith → Encyclopédistes ⓘ

The Encyclopedists → focusesOn → Encyclopédistes ⓘ

this entity surface form: Encyclopedists

Jesuits in France → opposedBy → Encyclopédistes ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment philosophes