European Enlightenment

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The European Enlightenment was an 18th-century intellectual and cultural movement in Europe that emphasized reason, science, individual rights, and secular governance, profoundly shaping modern Western thought and political institutions.

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instanceOf cultural movement
historical period
intellectual movement
alsoKnownAs Age of Enlightenment
Enlightenment
country Austria
France
German states
Great Britain
Italy
Russia
Scotland
Spain
endTime early 19th century
field economics
education
law
philosophy
political theory
religious thought
science
followedBy 19th-century liberalism
Romanticism
hasCoreIdea critique of authority
education reform
empiricism
equality before the law
freedom of religion
freedom of speech
individual rights
natural rights
progress
reason
scientific rationalism
secular governance
separation of powers
social contract
toleration
utilitarian ethics
hasKeyFigure Adam Smith
Baron d'Holbach
Benjamin Franklin
Catherine II of Russia
Cesare Beccaria
Condorcet
David Hume
Denis Diderot
Frederick II of Prussia
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Immanuel Kant
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Locke
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
Montesquieu
Moses Mendelssohn
Thomas Jefferson
Voltaire
hasKeyInstitution Masonic lodge
academy of sciences
coffeehouse
learned society
reading society
salon
hasKeyWork A Treatise of Human Nature
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Critique of Pure Reason
Encyclopédie
On Crimes and Punishments
The Social Contract
The Spirit of the Laws
Two Treatises of Government
hasLegacy codified civil law systems
expansion of suffrage debates
modern education systems
modern human rights discourse
secular state institutions
hasPart Central European Enlightenment
English Enlightenment
French Enlightenment
German Enlightenment
Italian Enlightenment
Scottish Enlightenment
Spanish Enlightenment
hasTheme anti-absolutism
codification of law
critique of religious dogma
education for citizenship
penal reform
print culture expansion
public sphere
influenced American Revolution
Enlightened absolutism
French Revolution
constitutionalism
human rights
liberal democracy
modern Western thought
scientific method
secularism
mainRegion Europe
precededBy Age of Reason
Scientific Revolution
startTime late 17th century
timePeriod 18th century

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