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14-September-2008 12:50:19 - of Enlightenment Part of School of Athens by Raphael Raffaelo Sanzio, 1483-1520 History of Western philosophy Pre-Socratic · Ancient Medieval · Renaissance 17th · 18th · 19th · 20th century Postmodern · Contemporary See also Eastern philosophy Babylonian · Indian · Iranian Chinese · Korean Religious philosophy Christian · Islamic · Jewish v d e The intellectual and philosophical developments of that age and their impact in moral and social reform aspired towards governmental consolidation, centralisation and primacy of the nation-state, and greater rights for common people. There was also a strong attempt to supplant the authority of aristocracy and established churches in social and political life, forces that were viewed as reactionary, oppressive and superstitious. The term came into use in English during the mid-nineteenth century,1 with particular reference to French philosophy, as the equivalent of a term then in use by German writers, Zeitalter der Aufklärung, signifying generally the philosophical outlook of the eighteenth century. The terminology Enlightenment or Age of Enlightenment does not represent a single movement or school of thought, for these philosophies were often mutually contradictory or divergent. The Enlightenment was less a set of ideas than it was a set of attitudes. At its core was a critical questioning of traditional institutions, customs, and morals. Some classifications of this period also include the late 17th century, which is typically known as the Age of Reason or Age of Rationalism.2 There is no consensus on when to date the start of the age of Enlightenment, and some scholars simply use the beginning of the eighteenth century or the middle of the seventeenth century as a default date.3 Other scholars use the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars 1804-15 as a convenient point in time with which to date the end of the Enlightenment.4 Still others describe the Enlightenment beginning in Britain's Glorious Revolution of 1688 and ending in the French Revolution of 1789. However, others also claim the Enlightenment ended with the death of Voltaire in 1778.citation needed Contents 1 Important figures 2 See also 3 References 4 Further reading Important figures Thomas Abbt 1738-1766 German. Promoted what would later be called Nationalism in Vom Tode für's Vaterland On dying for one's nation. Jean le Rond d'Alembert 1717-1783 French. Mathematician and physicist, one of the ors of Encyclopédie. Balthasar Bekker 1634-1698 Dutch, a key figure in the Early Enlightenment. In his book De Philosophia Cartesiana 1668 Bekker argued that theology and philosophy each had their separate terrain and that Nature can no more be explained from Scripture than can theological truth be deduced from Nature. Pierre Bayle 1647-1706 French. Literary critic known for Nouvelles de la république des lettres and Dictionnaire historique et critique, and one of the earliest influences on the Enlightenment thinkers to advocate tolerance between the difference religious beliefs. Cesare Beccaria Italian. Best known for his treatise On Crimes and Punishments 1764. Ludwig van Beethoven George Berkeley James Boswell 1740-1795 Scottish. Biographer of Samuel Johnson, helped established the norms for writing Biography in general. G.L. Buffon 1707-1788 French. Author of L'Histoire Naturelle who considered Natural Selection and the similarities between humans and apes. Edmund Burke 1729-1797 Irish. Parliamentarian and political philosopher, best known for pragmatism, considered important to both liberal and conservative thinking. James Burnett Lord Monboddo Scottish. Philosopher, jurist, pre-evolutionary thinker and contributor to linguistic evolution. See Scottish Enlightenment Marquis de Condorcet 1743-1794 French. Philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist who devised the concept of a Condorcet method. Ekaterina Dashkova Denis Diderot 1713-1784 French. Founder of the Encyclopédie, speculated on free will and attachment to material objects, contributed to the theory of literature. Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 American. Statesman, scientist, political philosopher, pragmatic deist, author. As a philosopher known for his writings on nationality, economic matters, aphorisms published in Poor Richard's Almanac and polemics in favour of American Independence. Involved with writing the United States Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of 1787. French Encyclopédistes Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Joseph-Alexandre-Victor Hupay de Fuveau,1746-1818, writer and philosopher who had used for the first time in 1785 the word communism in a doctrinal sense. Edward Gibbon 1737-1794 English. Historian best known for his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is closely identified with Enlightenment values, from Sturm und Drang and participating with Schiller in the movement of Weimar Classicism. Olympe de Gouges Joseph Haydn Helvétius Johann Gottfried von Herder German. Theologian and Linguist. Proposed that language determines thought, introduced concepts of ethnic study and nationalism, influential on later Romantic thinkers. Early supporter of democracy and republican self rule. Thomas Hobbes 1588 - 1679 English philosopher, who wrote Leviathan, a key text in political philosophy. Baron d'Holbach 1723-1789 French. Author, encyclopaedist and Europe's first outspoken atheist. Roused much controversy over his criticism of religion as a whole in his work The System of Nature. Robert Hooke 1635-1703 English, probably the leading experimenter of his age, Curator of Experiments for the Royal Society. Performed the work which quantified such concepts as Boyle's Law and the inverse-square nature of gravitation, father of the science of microscopy. David Hume 1711-1776 Scottish. Historian, philosopher and economist. Best known for his empiricism and scientific scepticism, advanced doctrines of naturalism and material causes. Influenced Kant and Adam Smith. Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826 American. Statesman, political philosopher, educator, deist. As a philosopher best known for the United States Declaration of Independence 1776 and his interpretation of the United States Constitution 1787 which he pursued as president. Argued for natural rights as the basis of all states, argued that violation of these rights negates the contract which bind a people to their rulers and that therefore there is an inherent Right to Revolution. Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos. Main figure of the Spanish Enlightenment. Preeminent statesman. Immanuel Kant 1724-1804 German. Philosopher and physicist. Established critical philosophy on a systematic basis, proposed a material theory for the origin of the solar system, wrote on ethics and morals. Prescribed a politics of Enlightenment in What is Enlightenment? 1784. Influenced by Hume and Isaac Newton. Important figure in German Idealism, and important to the work of Fichte and Hegel. Hugo KoÅ‚Å‚Ä…taj 1750-1812 Polish. He was active in the Commission for National Education and the Society for Elementary Textbooks, and reformed the Kraków Academy, of which he was rector in 1783-86. He co-authored the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's Constitution of May 3, 1791, and founded the Assembly of Friends of the Government Constitution to assist in the document's implementation. Ignacy Krasicki 1735-1801: Polish. Leading poet of the Polish Enlightenment, hailed by contemporaries as the Prince of Poets. After the 1764 election of StanisÅ‚aw August Poniatowski as King of Poland, Krasicki became the new King's confidant and chaplain. He participated in the King's famous Thursday dinners and co-founded the Monitor, the preeminent periodical of the Polish Enlightenment, sponsored by the King. He is remembered especially for his Fables and Parables. Antoine Lavoisier Gottfried Leibniz Co-inventor of calculus Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729-1781 German. Dramatist, critic, political philosopher. Created theatre in the German language, began reappraisal of Shakespeare to being a central figure, and the importance of classical dramatic norms as being crucial to good dramatic writing, theorized that the centre of political and cultural life is the middle class. Carl Linnaeus 1707 - 1778 Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of Binomial nomenclature. John Locke 1632-1704 English Philosopher. Important empiricist who expanded and extended the work of Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes. Seminal thinker in the realm of the relationship between the state and the individual, the contractual basis of the state and the rule of law. Argued for personal liberty with respect to property. Mikhail Lomonosov Sebastião de Melo, Marquis of Pombal 1699-1782 Portuguese statesman notable for his swift and competent leadership in the aftermath of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. He also implemented sweeping economic policies to regulate commercial activity and standardize quality throughout the country. The term Pombaline is used to describe not only his tenure, but also the architectural style which formed after the great earthquake. Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro 1676-1764 Spanish, was the most prominent promoter of the critical empiricist attitude at the dawn of the Spanish Enlightenment. See also the portuguese MartÃn Sarmiento. Montesquieu 1689-1755 French political thinker. He is famous for his articulation of the theory of separation of powers, taken for granted in modern discussions of government and implemented in many constitutions all over the world. Leandro Fernández de MoratÃn 1760-1828 Spanish. Dramatist and translator, support of republicanism and free thinking. Transitional figure to Romanticism. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sir Isaac Newton Founder of modern physics and co-inventor of calculus. Nikolay Novikov 1744-1818 Russian. Philanthropist and journalist who sought to raise the culture of Russian readers and publicly argued with the Empress. See Russian Enlightenment for other prominent figures. Dositej Obradovic 1742-1811 Serbian author, philosopher and linguist Thomas Paine 1737-1809 English/American. Pamphleteer, Deist, and polemicist, most famous for Common Sense attacking England's domination of the colonies in America. The pamphlet was key in fomenting the American Revolution. Also wrote The Age of Reason which remains one of the most persuasive critiques of the Bible ever written, his writings mainly Age of Reason and Rights of Man made Americans study their religion, their behaviors, and the ruling hierarchy. His work The Rights of Man was written in defense of the French Revolution and is the classic example up of the Enlightenment arguments in favor of classical liberalism. Francois Quesney 1694-1774 French economist of the Physiocratic school. He also practiced surgery. Thomas Reid 1710-1796 Scottish. Presbyterian minister and Philosopher. Contributed greatly to the idea of Common-Sense philosophy and was Hume's most famous contemporary critic. Best known for his An Inquiry Into The Human Mind. Heavily influenced William James. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Swiss political philosopher. Argued that the basis of morality was conscience, rather than reason, as most other philosophers argued. He wrote Du Contrat Social, in which Rousseau claims that citizens of a state must take part in creating a 'social contract' laying out the state's ground rules in order to found an ideal society in which they are free from arbitrary power. His rejection of reason in favor of the Noble Savage and his idealizing of ages past make him truly fit more into the romantic philosophical school, which was a reaction against the enlightenment. He largely rejected the individualism inherent in classical liberalism, arguing that the general will overrides the will of the individual. Mikhailo Shcherbatov Adam Smith 1723-1790 Scottish economist and philosopher. He wrote The Wealth of Nations, in which he argued that wealth was not money in itself, but wealth was derived from the added value in manufactured items produced by both invested capital and labor. He is sometimes considered to be the founding father of the Laissez-faire economic theory, but in fact argues for some degree of government control in order to maintain equity. Baruch Spinoza 1632-1672 Dutch, philosopher who is considered to have laid the groundwork for the 18th century Enlightenment. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688-1772 Natural philosopher and theologian whose search for the operation of the soul in the body led him to construct a detailed metaphysical model for spiritual-natural causation. Alexis de Tocqueville François-Marie Arouet pen name Voltaire 1694-1778 French Enlightenment writer, essayist, deist and philosopher. He wrote several books, the most famous of which is Dictionnaire Philosophique , in which he argued that organized religion is pernicious. He was the Enlightenment's most vigorous antireligious polemicist, as well as being a highly well known advocate of intellectual freedom. Adam Weishaupt 1748-1830 German who founded the Order of the Illuminati. John Wilkes Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German founder of art-history, who emphasised the mimetic or imitative function in art and laid important foundations to German classical idealism of the Enlightenment. Christian Wolff 1679-1754German Co-founder of the German Enlightenment. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1797 British writer, philosopher, and feminist. See also Counter-Enlightenment Science in the Age of Enlightenment Enlightened absolutism Humanism Secularism Higher criticism Deism Anti-intellectualism Atlantic Revolutions American Revolution, French Revolution, Latin American Revolutions and others... References ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd Edn revised ^ Hackett, Louis 1992. The age of Enlightenment. Retrieved on 2008-01-18. ^ Hooker, Richard 1996. The European Enlightenment. Retrieved on 2008-01-18. ^ Frost, Martin 2008. The age of Enlightenment. Retrieved on 2008-01-18. Further reading Bronner, Stephen Eric. Interpreting the Enlightenment: Metaphysics, Critique, and Politics, 2004 Bronner, Stephen Eric. The Great Divide: The Enlightenment and its Critics Brown, Stuart, ed.. British Philosophy in the Page of Enlightenment 2002 Buchan, James. Crowded with Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment: Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind 2003 Campbell, R.s. and Skinner, A.S., eds. The Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment, Edinburgh, 1982 Cassirer, Ernst. The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, Princeton University Press 1979 Dieterle, Bernard and Engel, Manfred eds.. The Dream and the Enlightenment / Le Rêve et les Lumières. Paris: Honoré Champion 2003, ISBN 2-7453-0672-3. Dupre, Louis. The Enlightenment the Intellctural Foundations of Modern Culture 2004 Foucault, Michel.What is Enlightenment? Gay, Peter. The Enlightenment: An Interpretation. New York: W. W. Norton Company, 1996 Greensides F, Hyland P, Gomez O ed.. The Enlightenment 2002 Herman, Arthur. How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of how Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It 2001 Hill, Jonathan. Faith in the Age of Reason, Lion/Intervarsity Press 2004 Himmelfarb, Gertrude. The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments, 2004 Hulluing, Mark. Autocritique of Enlightenment: Rousseau and the Philosophes 1994 Jacob, Margaret Enlightenment: A Brief History with Documents 2000 Kors, Alan Charles ed.. Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. 4 volumes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003 Melamed, Yitzhak Y. Salomon Maimon and the Rise of Spinozism in German Idealism, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Volume 42, Issue 1 Munck, Thomas. Enlightenment: A Comparative Social History, 1721-1794 Porter, Roy. The Enlightenment 1999 Redkop, Benjamin. The Enlightenment and Community, 1999 v d e Figures in the Age of Enlightenment by region and country Americas English-speaking America Benjamin Franklin · David Rittenhouse · John Adams · Thomas Jefferson · James Madison · Thomas Paine Latin America Eugenio Espejo · José JoaquÃn Fernández de Lizardi · Servando Teresa de Mier · Francisco de Miranda · Simón BolÃvar Central Europe Holy Roman Empire Christian Thomasius · Erhard Weigel · Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz · Frederick II · Immanuel Kant · Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · Thomas Abbt · Johann Gottfried von Herder · Adam Weishaupt · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · J.C.F. von Schiller · Carl Friedrich Gauss · Moses Mendelssohn · Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Hungary Ferenc Kazinczy · József Kármán · János Batsányi · Mihály Fazekas Netherlands Hugo Grotius · Baruch Spinoza · Franciscus van den Enden Eastern Europe Georgia Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani · David Bagrationi · Solomon Dodashvili Greece Adamantios Korais · Rigas Feraios · Theophilos Kairis Poland StanisÅ‚aw LeszczyÅ„ski · StanisÅ‚aw Konarski · StanisÅ‚aw August Poniatowski · Ignacy Krasicki · Hugo KoÅ‚Å‚Ä…taj · Ignacy Potocki · StanisÅ‚aw Staszic · Jan Åšniadecki · Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz · JÄ™drzej Åšniadecki Russia Catherine the Great · Mikhail Lomonosov · Ivan Shuvalov · Ivan Betskoy · Ekaterina Dashkova · Nikolay Novikov · Mikhail Shcherbatov · Alexander Radishchev Serbia Dositej Obradović Great Britain and Ireland England Richard Arkwright · Jeremy Bentham · Daniel Defoe · John Dryden · Henry Fielding · Edward Gibbon · Thomas Hobbes · Samuel Johnson · John Locke · Lord Shaftesbury · Isaac Newton · Thomas Paine · Beilby Porteus · Horace Walpole · John Wilkes · Mary Wollstonecraft Ireland George Berkeley · Edmund Burke · Jonathan Swift · John Toland Scotland Joseph Black · James Boswell · Robert Burns · Adam Ferguson · Francis Hutcheson · David Hume · James Hutton · Lord Kames · Lord Monboddo · James Macpherson · Thomas Reid · William Robertson · Adam Smith · Dugald Stewart · George Turnbull · James Watt Latin Europe France Pierre Bayle · Fontenelle · Montesquieu · François Quesnay · Voltaire · G.L. Buffon · Jean-Jacques Rousseau · Pasquale Paoli · Denis Diderot · Helvétius · Jean le Rond d'Alembert · Baron d'Holbach · Julien Offray de La Mettrie · Marquis de Sade · Condorcet · Antoine Lavoisier · Étienne Bonnot de Condillac · Olympe de Gouges · Alexis de Tocqueville Italy Giambattista Vico · Cesare Beccaria · Pietro Verri · Alessandro Verri · Gian Rinaldo Carli · Giuseppe Parini · Carlo Goldoni · Vittorio Alfieri · Giuseppe Baretti Portugal Sebastião de Melo, Marquis of Pombal · John V · Joseph I Romania Ienăchiţă Văcărescu · Anton Pann · Gheorghe Åžincai Spain Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos · Leandro Fernández de MoratÃn · Benito J. Feijoo · Charles III · Jorge Juan y Santacilia · Antonio de Ulloa · Count of Floridablanca · Francisco de Goya · Antonio Soler · Félix MarÃa de Samaniego · José de Cadalso · Juan Meléndez Valdés · Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa · Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, Count of Aranda Scandinavia Denmark-Norway Ludvig Holberg · Jens Schielderup Sneedorff · Johann Friedrich Struensee · Eggert Ólafsson Sweden Anders Chydenius · Peter ForsskÃ¥l · Gustav III · Arvid Horn · Johan Henric Kellgren · Emanuel Swedenborg Related topics Atheism · Capitalism · Civil liberties · Critical thinking · Deism · Democracy · Empiricism · Enlightened absolutism · Free markets · Haskalah · Humanism · Liberalism · Natural philosophy · Rationality · Reason · Sapere aude · Science · Secularism · French Encyclopédistes · German Classicism Retrieved from http://en..org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment Categories: 1700s | History of philosophy | Historical eras | History of Europe by period | Philosophical movements | The Enlightenment | Secularism | Western cultureHidden categories: All articles with statements | Articles with statements since July 2008 Views Article Discussion this page History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Search Go Search Interaction Community portal Recent changes Contact Donate to Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Cite this page Languages العربية AzÉ™rbaycan Bosanski БългарÑ?ки Català Česky Cymraeg Dansk Deutsch Eesti Ελληνικά Español Esperanto Euskara Ù?ارسی Français Galego í•œêµì–´ Hrvatski Bahasa Indonesia Ã?slenska Italiano עברית ქáƒ?რთული Қазақша Latina LatvieÅ¡u Lëtzebuergesch Lietuvių Magyar МакедонÑ?ки Bahasa Melayu Nederlands 日本語 ‪Norsk bokmÃ¥l‬ ‪Norsk nynorsk‬ Occitan Plattdüütsch Polski Português Română Rumantsch РуÑ?Ñ?кий Shqip Sicilianu Simple English SlovenÄ?ina SlovenÅ¡Ä?ina СрпÑ?ки / Srpski Srpskohrvatski / СрпÑ?кохрватÑ?ки Suomi Svenska ไทย Tiếng Việt Türkçe УкраїнÑ?ька ŽemaitÄ—Å¡ka ä¸æ–‡ This page was last modified on 13 September 2008, at 20:43
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