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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Denis Diderot → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Denis → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

subject surface form: Denis Diderot

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Deutsche Aufklärung → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: European Enlightenment

Emer de Vattel → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Encyclopédie → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Friedrich Nicolai → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

German Enlightenment → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Heinrich Marx → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Helvétius → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Herman Boerhaave → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Immanuel Kant → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Jean d’Alembert → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

Jean-Jacques Rousseau → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Jeremy Bentham → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Johann Christoph Gottsched → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

John Baskerville → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Laurent Durand → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Leonhard Euler → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

Louis de Jaucourt → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

Louisa Ulrika of Prussia → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

Marquis de Condorcet → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

Mary Wollstonecraft → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Mary → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

subject surface form: Mary Wollstonecraft

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Moses Mendelssohn → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

Pensées philosophiques → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Pierre Bayle → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Richard Price → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Thomas Day → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Thomas Paine → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

Vico → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Voltaire → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

William Godwin → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Zadig → movement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

American Romanticism → opposedTo → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment rationalism

Early Modern period → overlapsWith → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

British Enlightenment → partOf → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: European Enlightenment

Enlightenment rationalism → partOf → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

Enlightenment science → partOf → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

French Enlightenment → partOf → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

Scottish Enlightenment → partOf → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

A Letter Concerning Toleration → period → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

An Essay on the History of Civil Society → philosophicalMovement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Christianisme dévoilé → philosophicalMovement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Dei delitti e delle pene → philosophicalMovement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Discourse on the Arts and Sciences → philosophicalMovement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Essai sur les mœurs et l’esprit des nations → philosophicalMovement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment

Lettre sur les aveugles à l’usage de ceux qui voient → philosophicalMovement → Age of Enlightenment ⓘ

this entity surface form: Enlightenment