Enlightenment:
a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton, and its prominent exponents include Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith. Philosophe: a leading writer or thinker of the Enlightenment in 18th-century France, who advocated a rational approach to philosophy and government and criticized the French social and political system Natural Rights: Fundamental human rights based on universal natural law, as opposed to those based on man-made positive law. Absolutism: the acceptance of or belief in absolute principles in political, philosophical, ethical, or theological matters. Liberty: the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views Deism: belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe. |
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