Age of Enlightenment

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cultural movement historical period intellectual movement philosophical movement

The Age of Enlightenment was an 18th-century intellectual movement in Europe and the Americas that emphasized reason, science, and individual rights, profoundly shaping modern democratic and political thought.

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Observed surface forms (8)

Surface form	Occurrences
Enlightenment	79
European Enlightenment	14
Enlightenment era	3
French Enlightenment	2
the Enlightenment	2
Age of Reason	1
Enlightenment philosophy	1
Enlightenment rationalism	1

Statements (76)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural movement ⓘ historical period ⓘ intellectual movement ⓘ philosophical movement ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Age of Enlightenment ⓘ surface form: Age of Reason Age of Enlightenment ⓘ surface form: Enlightenment
associatedWith	Masonic lodges ⓘ Republic of Letters ⓘ salon culture ⓘ
coreValue	empiricism ⓘ freedom of thought ⓘ individual rights ⓘ progress ⓘ reason ⓘ secularism ⓘ tolerance ⓘ
emphasized	critique of authority ⓘ natural rights ⓘ rational inquiry ⓘ scientific method ⓘ social contract theory ⓘ
endTime	late 18th century ⓘ
field	economics ⓘ education ⓘ philosophy ⓘ political theory ⓘ science ⓘ
hasPart	American Enlightenment ⓘ Enlightened absolutism ⓘ Age of Enlightenment self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: French Enlightenment German Enlightenment ⓘ Scottish Enlightenment ⓘ
influenced	American Revolutionary War ⓘ surface form: American Revolution French Revolution ⓘ Latin American independence movements ⓘ constitutionalism ⓘ human rights discourse ⓘ laïcité ⓘ modern democracy ⓘ modern liberalism ⓘ modern scientific institutions ⓘ separation of powers doctrine ⓘ
influencedBy	Reformation ⓘ Renaissance humanism ⓘ Scientific Revolution ⓘ
legacy	codification of civil rights ⓘ development of modern constitutions ⓘ expansion of public education ⓘ rise of secular states ⓘ
mainRegion	Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ
majorFigure	Adam Smith ⓘ Baron d'Holbach ⓘ Benjamin Franklin ⓘ Cesare Beccaria ⓘ David Hume ⓘ Denis Diderot ⓘ Immanuel Kant ⓘ Jean-Jacques Rousseau ⓘ John Locke ⓘ Mary Wollstonecraft ⓘ Montesquieu ⓘ Thomas Jefferson ⓘ Voltaire ⓘ
majorWork	A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ⓘ An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ⓘ Critique of Pure Reason ⓘ Encyclopédie ⓘ The Social Contract ⓘ The Spirit of the Laws ⓘ The Wealth of Nations ⓘ
opposed	absolute monarchy ⓘ censorship ⓘ divine right of kings ⓘ religious dogmatism ⓘ
startTime	late 17th century ⓘ

Referenced by (161)

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Thirteen Colonies → historicalEra → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

University of Königsberg → historicalEra → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Viceroyalty of New Granada → historicalEra → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

A Fragment on Government → historicalPeriod → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Barillot & Fils → historicalPeriod → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Battle of Kay → historicalPeriod → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

Bourbon Reforms → historicalPeriod → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

Bourbon royal engineers → historicalPeriod → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick → historicalPeriod → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment era

Constitution of 3 May 1791 (adopted by the Four-Year Sejm) → historicalPeriod → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

subject surface form: Constitution of 3 May 1791

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Critica Botanica → historicalPeriod → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

Panopticon; or, The Inspection-House → historicalPeriod → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Spanish invasion of Sardinia in 1717 → historicalPeriod → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

The Social Contract → historicalPeriod → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

The Spirit of the Laws → historicalPeriod → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

Treaty of Paris (1763) → historicalPeriod → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

W. Strahan and T. Cadell → historicalPeriod → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

War of the Bavarian Succession → historicalPeriod → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

American Enlightenment → influencedBy → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: European Enlightenment

American Revolutionary era → influencedBy → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Atlantic Revolutions → influencedBy → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

French republicanism → influencedBy → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

German Enlightenment → influencedBy → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: French Enlightenment

Haskalah → influencedBy → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: European Enlightenment

Latin American independence movements → influencedBy → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Milanese Enlightenment → influencedBy → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: European Enlightenment

Neoclassicism → influencedBy → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

Patriot (American Revolution) → influencedBy → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Pre-Romanticism → influencedBy → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Russian Enlightenment → influencedBy → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: European Enlightenment

Scottish Enlightenment → influencedBy → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: European Enlightenment

Simón Bolívar → influencedBy → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Slovak national revival → influencedBy → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Society of Friends of the Constitution → influencedBy → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Sturm und Drang → influencedBy → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

American Declaration of Independence → influencedBy → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

subject surface form: United States Declaration of Independence

this entity surface form: Enlightenment philosophy

Bengali Renaissance → inspiredBy → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: European Enlightenment

Candide → literaryMovement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Confessions → literaryMovement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third → literaryMovement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Ideas for the Philosophy of History of Humanity → literaryMovement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Nathan the Wise → literaryMovement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

The Enlightenment: An Interpretation → mainSubject → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism → mainSubject → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

A Vindication of the Rights of Men → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Anders Johan von Höpken → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Anna Laetitia Barbauld → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Benjamin Franklin → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

Cesare Beccaria → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Charles-Louis → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

subject surface form: Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu

this entity surface form: Enlightenment