19th century, which led to the American Revolution and the creation of the United States. The American Enlightenment was influenced by the 17th- and...
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Look up enlightenment, Enlightenment, enlighten, or enlightened in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Enlightenment or enlighten may refer to: Age of Enlightenment...
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The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was an intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the...
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underpinnings of Spanish American independence. Works by Enlightenment philosophers were owned and read in Spanish America, despite restrictions on the...
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The Scottish Enlightenment (Scots: Scots Enlichtenment, Scottish Gaelic: Soillseachadh na h-Alba) was the period in 18th- and early-19th-century Scotland...
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The Dark Enlightenment, also called the neo-reactionary movement (sometimes abbreviated to NRx), is an anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, reactionary...
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Revolution. The American Enlightenment was a critical precursor of the American Revolution. Chief among the ideas of the American Enlightenment were the concepts...
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Georgian era (redirect from English Enlightenment)
of the Scottish Enlightenment, as well as the American Enlightenment, while debating the very existence of the English Enlightenment. English historian...
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The patriots were inspired by English and American republican ideology that was part of the Age of Enlightenment, and rejected monarchy and aristocracy and...
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The Counter-Enlightenment refers to a loose collection of intellectual stances that arose during the European Enlightenment in opposition to its mainstream...
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The ideas of the Age of Enlightenment (Spanish: Ilustración) came to Spain in the 18th century with the new Bourbon dynasty, following the death of the...
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Hamowy, Ronald. "Jefferson and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Critique of Garry Wills's Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence". William...
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Culture of the United States (redirect from American popular culture)
Politically, the country takes its values from the American Revolution and American Enlightenment, with an emphasis on liberty, individualism, and limited...
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Question: What Is Enlightenment?" (German: Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?), often referred to simply as "What Is Enlightenment?", is a 1784 essay...
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which challenged the ideas of the Enlightenment at the end of the early modern period. It was written by the American historian Darrin McMahon and published...
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George Washington (redirect from American Fabius)
the Universe, contrary to deistic thought. He referred to God in American Enlightenment terms, including Providence, the Creator, or the Almighty, and the...
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United States Bill of Rights (redirect from American Bill of Rights)
American Constitution. Archived from the original on March 29, 2015. Retrieved July 11, 2013. Labunski, p. 259. Deloria, Vine Jr. (2000). "American Indians...
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Thirteen Colonies (redirect from American colonial period)
Army to fight the American Revolutionary War. In 1776, Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence as the United States of America and, asserting its...
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John Adams (redirect from 2nd President of America)
IV:557 Madison, James. "The Federalist No. 51". Ralston, Shane J. "American Enlightenment Thought". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved July 6...
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The Midlands Enlightenment, also known as the West Midlands Enlightenment or the Birmingham Enlightenment, was a scientific, economic, political, cultural...
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James Madison (redirect from 4th President of America)
theology, and the works of the Enlightenment, and emphasized speech and debate. Madison was a leading member of the American Whig–Cliosophic Society, which...
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Alexander Hamilton (category People of the American Enlightenment)
Darren (2005). Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding. New York: Hill and Wang. ISBN 978-0-8090-7784-7. Steward...
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Thomas Jefferson (redirect from 3rd President of America)
Press. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-691-24736-6. TJF: American Indians "Thomas Jefferson's Enlightenment and American Indians". Thomas Jefferson Foundation. Retrieved...
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History of the United States (1776–1789) (redirect from American Founding)
the American Revolution as part of a broader American Enlightenment, in which the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment began to influence American science...
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(1776–1814) Atlantic World Cartography of Latin America Castas Spanish Empire Spanish American Enlightenment Black legend (Spain) Hapsburg Spain List of largest...
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Colonial history of the United States (redirect from Early American history)
excessive dance errors. By the mid-18th century, the values of the American Enlightenment became established and weakened the view that husbands were natural...
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Founding Fathers of the United States (redirect from American Founding Father)
Hancock: Merchant King and American Patriot (John Wiley & Sons, 2000). Valsania, Maurizio. The French Enlightenment in America: Essays on the Times of the...
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Benjamin Franklin (category People of the American Enlightenment)
of African Americans into U.S. society. As a scientist, his studies of electricity made him a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history...
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The Age of Enlightenment was a broad philosophical movement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The traditional theological-political system...
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Deism (section Enlightenment Deism)
the 17th century and during the Age of Enlightenment, especially in 18th-century England, France, and North America, various Western philosophers and theologians...
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