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'''"The Enlightenment" or the "European Enlightenment'''
'''Overview'''
* 1680-1790
* 1680-1790
* a product of the Protestant Reformation
* an intellectual "Age of Reason"
* intellectual "Age of Reason"
* world view change from religious to secular
* world view change from religious to secular
* skepticism & religious skepticism
* marked by skepticism and inquiry
* pursuit of happiness: focus on the human condition
* pursuit of happiness: focus on the human condition
* diffusion of knowledge: books, pamphlets, publications, libraries, universities
* diffusion of knowledge: books, pamphlets, publications, libraries, universities


= Background and historical context =
== Background and historical context ==


== Protestant Revolution ==
=== Protestant Revolution ===
* a product of the Protestant Reformation


== Age of Discovery ==
=== Age of Discovery ===


== Scientific Revolution ==
=== Scientific Revolution ===


== Technological advances ==
=== Technological advances ===


== Key dates of the Enlightenment==
== Key dates of the Enlightenment==
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*** the work attacked mysticism and superstition
*** the work attacked mysticism and superstition


==== taxonomy of human knowledge ====
==== Taxonomy of human knowledge ====
[[File:ENC SYSTEME FIGURE.jpeg|thumb|Fig. 3: "Figurative system of human knowledge", the structure that the Encyclopédie organised knowledge into. It had three main branches: memory, reason, and imagination.]]
[[File:ENC SYSTEME FIGURE.jpeg|thumb|Fig. 3: "Figurative system of human knowledge", the structure that the Encyclopédie organised knowledge into. It had three main branches: memory, reason, and imagination.]]
* Enlightenment's outlook was that all human knowledge and the world and universe around it can be understood rationally
* Enlightenment's outlook was that all human knowledge and the world and universe around it can be understood rationally
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== Enlightenment thinkers ==
== Enlightenment thinkers ==


=== entry structure ===
<nowiki> === alphabetical by last name===</nowiki>
<nowiki> === </nowiki>section title: first, last, alphabetical by last name
<nowiki> === </nowiki>section title: first, last, alphabetical by last name
* dates
* dates