Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was a European intellectual and philosophical movement active from the late 17th to early 19th century
Enlightenment | Definition, Summary, Ideas, Meaning, History . . . Enlightenment, a European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were synthesized into a worldview that gained wide assent in the West and that instigated revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and politics
The Enlightenment - World History Encyclopedia The Enlightenment (Age of Reason) was a revolution in thought in Europe and North America from the late 17th century to the late 18th century The Enlightenment involved new approaches in philosophy, science, and politics
Enlightenment - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Guided by D’Alembert’s characterization of his century, the Enlightenment is conceived here as having its primary origin in the scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries
What was the Enlightenment and why did it change the world? In the 17th and 18th centuries, a bold movement swept across Europe, which introduced the idea that you could challenge authority, tradition, and centuries of established thought Known as the Enlightenment, it inspired an entire generation of thinkers, scientists, and revolutionaries
Smarthistory – The Age of Enlightenment, an introduction Enlightenment Toward the middle of the eighteenth century a shift in thinking occurred This shift is known as the Enlightenment You have probably already heard of some important Enlightenment figures, like Rousseau, Diderot and Voltaire
The Phases and Characteristics of the Enlightenment The Enlightenment had three main phases: the early phase influenced by scientific revolutionaries like Newton and Galileo, the high Enlightenment led by French philosophes like Voltaire and Rousseau, and the late phase marked by the French Revolution and economic liberalism