Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia The Enlightenment emerged from and built upon the Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries, which had established new methods of empirical inquiry through the work of figures such as Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Francis Bacon, Pierre Gassendi, Christiaan Huygens and Isaac Newton
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 Period: Thinkers Ideas | HISTORY European politics, philosophy, science and communications were radically reoriented during the course of the “long 18th century” (1685-1815) as part of a movement referred to by its participants
Enlightenment - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy The Enlightenment is often associated with its political revolutions and ideals, especially the French Revolution of 1789 The energy created and expressed by the intellectual foment of Enlightenment thinkers contributes to the growing wave of social unrest in France in the eighteenth century
ENLIGHTENMENT Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster Enlightenment : a philosophical movement of the 18th century marked by a rejection of traditional social, religious, and political ideas and an emphasis on rationalism