Enlightenment era

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_period
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Age_of_Enlightenment
gptkb:Age_of_Reason
gptkbp:characteristic promotion of science
emphasis on reason
advocacy of liberty
belief in progress
skepticism of tradition
gptkbp:endDate early 19th century
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Romanticism
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Enlightenment era
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:American_Revolution
gptkb:French_Revolution
human rights
Latin American independence movements
modern democracy
secular education
gptkbp:notableEvent abolitionist movements
Salons in Paris
publication of Encyclopédie
rise of scientific societies
spread of print culture
gptkbp:notableFigure gptkb:Adam_Smith
gptkb:Benjamin_Franklin
gptkb:David_Hume
gptkb:Immanuel_Kant
gptkb:Jean-Jacques_Rousseau
gptkb:John_Locke
gptkb:Mary_Wollstonecraft
gptkb:Thomas_Jefferson
gptkb:Thomas_Paine
gptkb:Voltaire
gptkb:Denis_Diderot
gptkb:Baron_de_Montesquieu
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Common_Sense
gptkb:Critique_of_Pure_Reason
gptkb:A_Vindication_of_the_Rights_of_Woman
gptkb:Encyclopédie
gptkb:Two_Treatises_of_Government
gptkb:An_Inquiry_into_the_Nature_and_Causes_of_the_Wealth_of_Nations
gptkb:The_Social_Contract
gptkb:The_Spirit_of_the_Laws
gptkbp:philosophy atheism
empiricism
individualism
liberalism
progress
rationalism
scientific research
tolerance
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Scientific_Revolution
gptkbp:region gptkb:Europe
gptkb:North_America
gptkbp:startDate late 17th century
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Freedom_of_Speech
gptkb:Separation_of_powers
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5