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	Age of Enlightenment - MSN Encarta
		Age of Enlightenment, a term used to describe the trends in thought and letters in Europe and the American colonies during the 18th century prior to the French Revolution (1789-1799).
		The age was enormously impressed by the discovery by Isaac Newton of universal gravitation.
		Enlightenment thinkers placed a great premium on the discovery of truth through the observation of nature, rather than through the study of authoritative sources, such as Aristotle and the Bible.
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	Enlightenment, Age of - MSN Encarta
		Enlightenment, Age of, term for the trends in 18th-century thought and letters in Europe and the American colonies before the French Revolution.
		The Enlightenment was a profoundly cosmopolitan movement with representatives throughout Europe and the American colonies: David Hume in Scotland; in Italy, Cesare Beccaria (a determined opponent of torture and capital punishment); and Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson in the American colonies.
		Many ideas of the Enlightenment were useful to rulers: educational and judicial reform, a trained bureaucracy, the ending of noble and clerical exemption from taxation, tolerance of (often talented and industrious) religious dissidents, and the abolition or amelioration of serfdom, enabling peasants to pay more taxes.
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	Age of Enlightenment - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The enlightenment was mirrored by the Jewish Haskalah, which in Western Europe and particularly in Germany resulted in the elevation and eventual replacement of Yiddish by Hebrew, as well as the Jewish reform and Zionist Nationalist movements.
		The Enlightenment was a time when the solar system was truly discovered: with the accurate calculation of orbits, such as Halley's comet, the discovery of the first planet since antiquity, Uranus by William Herschel, and the calculation of the mass of the Sun using Newton's theory of universal gravitation.
		Philosophers such as Michel Foucault are often understood as arguing that the age of reason had to construct a vision of unreason as being demonic and subhuman, and therefore evil and befouling, whence by analogy to argue that rationalism in the modern period is, likewise, a construction.
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		The Encyclopedie of Denis Diderot epitomized the spirit of the Age of Enlightenment, or Age of Reason, as it is also called.
		The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods,...
		He began preaching after achieving supreme enlightenment at the age of 35....
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		We can call the eighteenth century the age of the enlightenment bcause it was both a culmination and a new beginning.
		It was the Enlightenment, not the Reformation or the Renaissance that dislodged the ecclesiastical establishment from central control of cultural and intellectual life.
		The Enlightenment rescued history from the antiquarians and the philologists: Voltaire, Hume, and Gibbon.
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		The Age of Enlightenment refers to the 18th century in European philosophy, and is often thought of as part of a larger period which includes the Age of Reason.
		Thus The Enlightenment extolled the ideals of liberty, property and rationality which are still recognizable as the basis for most political philosophies even in the present era; that is, of a free individual being mostly free within the dominion of the state whose role is to provide stability to those natural laws.
		Alternatively, the Enlightenment was used as a powerful symbol to argue for the supremacy of rationalism and rationalization, and therefore any attack on it is connected to despotism and madness, for example in the writings of Gertrude Himmelfarb and Robert Nozick.
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	Age of Enlightenment - ArticleWorld
		The Age of Enlightenment refers to the European philosophy in 18th century and describes the intellectual movement named “Enlightenment”.
		The Enlightenment was influenced by the ideas of Blaise Pascal, G Leibniz or Galileo.
		The law-they said-invested the king with his power, idea which lead to another one, the liberty as a fundamental right of man; the only role of the state is to provide stability to the natural laws.
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	The Age of Enlightenment
		The Age of Enlightenment refers to the 18th century in European philosophy, and is often thought of as part of a larger period which includes the Age of Reason.
		The Enlightenment began then, from the belief in a rational, orderly and comprehensible universe—then proceeded, in stages, to form a rational and orderly organization of knowledge and the state, such as what is found in the idea of Deism.
		Thus The Enlightenment extolled the ideals of liberty, property and rationality which are still recognizable as the basis for most political philosophies even in the present era; that is, of a free individual being mostly free within the dominion of the state whose role is to provide stability to those natural laws.
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		However the Age of Enlightenment was the dawn of the radical movement of the Illuminati and heavily influenced the Freemasons.
		The boundaries of the Enlightenment cover much of the 17th century as well, though others term the previous era "The Age of Reason." For the present purposes, these two eras are split; however, it is equally acceptable to think of them conjoined as one long period.
		Alternatively, the Enlightenment was used as a powerful symbol to argue for the supremacy of rationalism and rationalization, and therefore any attack on it is connected to despotism and madness, for example in the writings of Gertrude Himmelfarb and Robert Nozick.
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	The Age of Enlightenment - Psychology Wiki
		The Age of Enlightenment refers to the 18th century in European philosophy, and is often thought of as part of a larger period which includes the Age of Reason.
		The Enlightenment began then, from the belief in a rational, orderly and comprehensible universe—then proceeded, in stages, to form a rational and orderly organization of knowledge and the state, such as what is found in the idea of Deism.
		Thus The Enlightenment extolled the ideals of liberty, property and rationality which are still recognizable as the basis for most political philosophies even in the present era; that is, of a free individual being mostly free within the dominion of the state whose role is to provide stability to those natural laws.
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	France - The Age of Enlightenment, France History
		This was the age of the historical intellectual movement, the Enlightenment.
		The Age of Enlightenment was the age, when the intellectual leaders considered themselves as the courageous elite.
		The period of the Age of Enlightenment in France can be divided into various stages such as the Regency, the reigns of Louis XV, Louis XVI and the French Revolution.
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	The Age of the Enlightenment
		We can call the eighteenth century the age of the enlightenment bcause it was both a culmination and a new beginning.
		It was the Enlightenment, not the Reformation or the Renaissance that dislodged the ecclesiastical establishment from central control of cultural and intellectual life.
		Enlightenment historians applied the whole culture of their age to the past.
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	The Age of Enlightenment
		The Age of Enlightenment was a period of scientific awakening, largely centred around France, although the starting point for Enlightenment was John Locke's (1632-1705) book Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), which was a relentless attack on metaphysical arguments.
		The focus on self-consciousness led to a break with the past rather than a gradual change and the tendency towards specialisations led to hastening of division of disciplines (see Descartes) and spawned many specialist journals and an active printing industry.
		The Enlightenment was double-edged as it contained a critical spirit, yet sought certainty.
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	History of Western Philosophy Summary Outline, Age of Enlightenment
		The ëAge of Enlightenmentí is a term used to describe the trends in thought and letters in Europe and the American colonies during the 18
		Many proponents of the Enlightenment were not philosophers in the commonly accepted sense of the word; they were populizers engaged in a self-conscious effort to win converts.
		The Age of Enlightenment is usually said to have ended with the French Revolution of 1789; indeed, some see the social and political ferment of this period as being responsible for the Revolution.
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	What is the Age of Enlightenment?
		The Enlightenment is a name given by historians to an intellectual movement that was predominant in the Western world during the 18th century.
		The Enlightenment came to an end in western Europe after the upheavals of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era revealed the costs of its political program and the lack of commitment in those whose rhetoric was often more liberal than their actions.
		Enlightenment was eroded by the growth of a new wealthy educated class of businessmen, products of the industrial revolution.
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	Age of Enlightenment
		The lowland middle class Scot was at the forefront of the enlightenment of European culture.
		The late eighteenth century in Scotland was a period of enlightenment and cultural achievement.
		The vast majority of the tenant and middle class people obviously did not distinguish themselves in science and the arts: most were too busy maintaining their farms and modest properties.
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	The Age Of Enlightenment
		Many historians consider the eighteenth century philosophical movement the "Age of Enlightenment" to be one of the most influential periods in history.
		Biography of the consummate gentleman of the Age of Enlightenment, Sir William Johnson (1715-1774).
		Colonial American Society: the rise of the free press, public education, political structure, and religious tolerance in the Age of Enlightenment.
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	The Age of Enlightenment.
		The 18th century, introducing the Age of Eligtenment, brought about advances in education, science, public works and a rational conception in both politics and life in general.
		The creation of new cultural institutions began during the reign of Philip V with the founding in 1714 of the Libreria Real which would become the National Library and the Royal Spanish Academy of Language.
		The two great figures of the age were Father Feijoo and Jovellanos.
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	The Enlightenment
		Indeed, it is one of the hallmarks of the Enlightenment.
		Today the Enlightenment is often viewed as a historical anomaly, a brief moment when a number of thinkers infatuated with reason vainly supposed that the perfect society could be built on common sense and tolerance, a fantasy which collapsed amid the Terror of the French Revolution and the triumphal sweep of Romanticism.
		Religious thinkers repeatedly proclaim the Enlightenment dead, Marxists denounce it for promoting the ideals and power of the bourgeoisie at the expense of the working classes, postcolonial critics reject its idealization of specifically European notions as universal truths, and postructuralists reject its entire concept of rational thought.
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		The spirit of the enlightenment was one change; specifically changes which went against the previous teaching of the Catholic Church.
		The age of enlightenment was strongly influenced by the ……
		The scientific method of the Enlightenment, according to the authors, may have originally intended to serve the ideals of human liberation in an assault upon religious dogma.
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	Spiritual Enlightenment... in an age of scientific reasoning
		Enlightenment is simply having obtained a greater understanding but, importantly, it is a matter of degree.
		Such enlightening knowledge, if sought, would be available to every living soul… and it is. As to oracles and wizards, even though they evidently discovered how to obtain enlightenment, they selfishly kept their source a secret.
		While enlightenment can be passed on to others, and may hold value, it is far better to have the goose than a few golden eggs.
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		Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Biocrawler
		The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) is a British period instrument or baroque orchestra.
		Formed in 1986 by a group of players, it does not have a principal conductor, rather is led artistically by a board of elected musicians.
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		The term also more specifically refers to an intellectual movement, "The Enlightenment", which is described as being the use of rationality to establish an authoritative ethics, aesthetics, and knowledge.
		Piety and belief were an integral part of the exploration of natural philosophy and ethics as well as political theories of the age.
		It is preceded by the Age of Reason, if thought of as a short period, and by the Renaissance and Reformation if thought of as a long period.
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