The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the...
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history of science during the Age of Enlightenment traces developments in science and technology during the Age of Reason, when Enlightenment ideas and...
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The Age of Enlightenment dominated advanced thought in Europe from about the 1650s to the 1780s. It developed from a number of sources of “new” ideas...
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The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) is a British period instrument orchestra. The OAE is a resident orchestra of the Southbank Centre, London...
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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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movement. The term "Dark Enlightenment" is a reaction to the Age of Enlightenment and apologia for the public view of the "Dark Ages". The ideology generally...
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of Enlightenment Anti-intellectualism Golden Age of Freethought Higher criticism Natural philosophy Public reason Self-efficacy What Is Enlightenment? (Foucault)...
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have the notion of God and reject it." In the period of the Enlightenment, avowed and open atheism was made possible by the advance of religious toleration...
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18th-century Age of Enlightenment. Others, however, have used the term to denote the relative scarcity of records regarding at least the early part of the Middle...
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and the creation of the United States. The American Enlightenment was influenced by the 17th- and 18th-century Age of Enlightenment in Europe and native...
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Dialectic of Enlightenment (German: Dialektik der Aufklärung) is a work of philosophy and social criticism written by Frankfurt School philosophers Max...
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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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Romanticism (redirect from Age of Romanticism)
response to the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. Romanticists rejected the social conventions of the time in favor of a moral outlook...
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The Age of Enlightenment was a broad philosophical movement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The traditional theological-political system that...
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legal manifestation of the Age of Enlightenment that developed in Birmingham and the wider English Midlands during the second half of the eighteenth century...
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Modern era (redirect from Modern age)
Counter-Reformation, proceeding with absolutism and the Age of Enlightenment. The early modern period ended with Age of Revolutions and the French Revolution, later...
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concept of natural theology—that is, God's existence is revealed through nature. Since the 17th century and during the Age of Enlightenment, especially...
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The history of Slovenia chronicles the period of the Slovenian territory from the 5th century BC to the present. In the Early Bronze Age, Proto-Illyrian...
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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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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 last...
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Haskalah (redirect from Jewish Enlightenment)
enquiry, and is largely perceived as the Jewish variant of the general Age of Enlightenment. The movement encompassed a wide spectrum ranging from moderates...
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Sovereignty (section Age of Enlightenment)
the Age of Enlightenment, the idea of sovereignty gained both legal and moral force as the main Western description of the meaning and power of a State...
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Western esotericism (category Schools of thought)
orthodox Judeo-Christian religion and Age of Enlightenment rationalism.[citation needed] It has influenced various forms of Western philosophy, mysticism, religion...
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Scientist (section Age of Enlightenment)
having contributed to the rise of the Scientific Revolution. During the age of Enlightenment, Luigi Galvani, the pioneer of the bioelectromagnetics, discovered...
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after the establishment of formal disciplines of science in the Age of Enlightenment. Science's earliest roots can be traced to Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia...
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The Scottish Town in the Age of Enlightenment, 1740–1820 is a book by Scottish historians Bob Harris and Charles McKean. It was first published in August...
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Western Europe (category Regions of Europe)
dominant use of "Christendom" as the preferred endonym within the region. By the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution, the concepts of "Eastern...
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Progressivism (redirect from List of progressive parties)
Progressivism arose during the Age of Enlightenment out of the belief that civility in Europe was improving due to the application of new empirical knowledge...
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Science (redirect from Basic theories of science)
should be used to study nature. At the start of the Age of Enlightenment, Isaac Newton formed the foundation of classical mechanics by his Philosophiæ Naturalis...
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Early modern period (redirect from Early modern age)
source available. The Age of Enlightenment is also called the Age of Reason because it marked a change from the medieval tradition of scholasticism based...
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