Enlightenment Philosophy

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The Enlightenment was born some time in the late 17th century and is the ancestor of many, many philosophies. They are a broad philosophy used to represent ideas of the Age of Enlightenment. Although their biggest contribution to the world was to give birth to,   and etc. They also caused the separation of church and state and went against tyranny. Their ideas promoted individual liberty, progress, fraternity, and tolerance.

Philosophical Beliefs
Enlightenment emphasized reason and rationality as the keys to unlocking the mysteries of the universe. Enlightenment thinkers believed in the potential for human progress through education and the application of reason, leading to greater levels of freedom and happiness.

The philosophy stressed the importance of the individual, placing a high value on individual freedom and autonomy. The separation of church and state was a central aspect of the movement. Enlightenment philosophers were skeptical of traditional beliefs and assumptions and encouraged critical inquiry, challenging authority and dogma.

The philosophy emphasized the existence of universal laws and principles that applied to all human beings, regardless of race, gender, or social class. This idea had a profound impact on Western thought and continues to influence contemporary philosophical debates.

Personality and Behaviour
Enlightenment within the comics is usually portrayed as a stereotypical enlightened thinker.

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 * Age of Enlightenment

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 * Discourse on Method and the Meditations by René Descartes (1637 and 1641)


 * Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy by Pierre Gassendi (1655)


 * Maxims by François de La Rochefoucauld (1662)


 * Pensees by Blaise Pascal (1670)


 * Theological-Political Treatise by Benedict De Spinoza (1670)


 * Ethics by Benedict De Spinoza (1677)


 * A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke (1689)


 * Two Treatises of Government by John Locke (1690)


 * An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1690)


 * Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and the Raising the Value of Money by John Locke (1691)


 * Discourses Concerning Government by Algernon Sidney (1698)


 * The Fable of the Bees; Or, Private Vices, Public Benefits by Bernard Mandeville (1714)


 * Philosophical Selections by Nicolas Malebranche (1715)


 * Cato's Letters by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon (1720)


 * The New Science by Giambattista Vico (1725)


 * An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue by Francis Hutcheson (1725)


 * An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations on the Moral Sense by Francis Hutcheson (1728)


 * A Modest Proposal and Other Writings by Jonathan Swift (1729)


 * Letters Concerning the English by Voltaire (1734)


 * A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1740)


 * Machine Man and Other Writings by Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1747)


 * The Spirit of the Laws by Baron de Montesquieu (1748)


 * An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume (1748)


 * An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume (1751)


 * The Law of Nations Treated According to the Scientific Method by Christian Wolff (1754)


 * A System of Moral Philosophy by Francis Hutcheson (1755)


 * An Essay on Economic Theory: Essay on the Nature of Trade in General by Richard Cantillon (1755)


 * A Review of the Principal Questions in Morals by Richard Price (1758)


 * De L'esprit, Or, Essays On the Mind, and Its Several Faculties by Claude Adrien Helvétius (1758)


 * The Economical Table by Francois Quesnay (1758)


 * Essays: Moral, Political and Literary by David Hume (1758)


 * The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith (1759)


 * Christianity Unveiled by Baron d'Holbach (1761)


 * Emile; or On Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762)


 * The Basic Political Writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1750-1762)


 * Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1782)


 * The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1782)


 * Lectures on Jurisprudence by Adam Smith (1763)


 * Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms by Adam Smith (1763)


 * Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France by Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1763)


 * Treatise On Toleration by Voltaire (1763)


 * Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1764)


 * On Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria (1764)


 * On Natural Rights by Francois Quesnay (1765)


 * An Essay on the History of Civil Society by Adam Ferguson (1767)


 * An Essay on the First Principles of Government, and on the Nature of Political, Civil, and Religious Liberty by Joseph Priestley (1768)


 * The Sacred Contagion: The Natural History of Superstition by Baron d'Holbach (1768)


 * System of Nature by Baron d'Holbach (1770)


 * Turgot Collection by Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1770)


 * Good Sense Without God: The Revolutionary Treatise on Free Thought by Baron d'Holbach (1772)


 * Encyclopedic Liberty by Denis Diderot, Henry C. Clark, and Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1751-1772)


 * Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776)


 * Commerce and Government: Considered in Their Mutual Relationship by Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1776)


 * An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776)


 * Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume (1779)


 * A Treatise Concerning Civil Government by Josiah Tucker (1781)


 * Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos De Laclos (1782)


 * Political Writings by Denis Diderot (1784)


 * Dialogue Between A Priest And A Dying Man by Marquis de Sade (1782)


 * The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade (1785)


 * Aline and Valcour, Vol. 1: or, the Philosophical Novel by Marquis de Sade (1788)


 * Aline and Valcour, Vol. 2: or, the Philosophical Novel by Marquis de Sade (1788)


 * Aline and Valcour, Vol. 3: or, the Philosophical Novel by Marquis de Sade (1788)


 * Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue by Marquis de Sade (1788)


 * Philosophy in the Bedroom by Marquis de Sade (1795)


 * Juliette by Marquis de Sade (1799)


 * The Limits of State Action by Wilhelm von Humboldt (1790)


 * Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke (1790)


 * Rights of Man by Thomas Paine (1791)


 * Agrarian Justice by Thomas Paine (1797)


 * Mary Wollstonecraft Philosophical and Political Writings Collection by Mary Wollstonecraft (1797)


 * Condorcet: Political Writings by Nicolas de Condorcet (1788-1794)


 * Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment? by Immanuel Kant (1784)


 * Logic by Immanuel Kant and Gottlob Benjamin Jäsche (1800)


 * Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings by Immanuel Kant (1764)


 * Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1781)


 * The Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant (1785)


 * Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science by Immanuel Kant (1786)


 * Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant (1788)


 * Critique of Judgment by Immanuel Kant (1790)


 * Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason by Immanuel Kant (1793)


 * To Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch by Immanuel Kant (1795)


 * Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant (1797)


 * Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View by Immanuel Kant (1798)


 * Lectures and Drafts on Political Philosophy by Immanuel Kant (1799)


 * Opus Postumum by Immanuel Kant (1804)


 * Kant’s Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties by Gilles Deleuze (1967)


 * Kant and Political Philosophy: The Contemporary Legacy by Ronald Beiner and William James Booth (1993)


 * Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment by Alan Charles Kors (1815)