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Polish–Lithuanian Constitution of 1791, Europe's first modern constitution. Enlightenment ideas (oświecenie) emerged late in Poland, as the Polish middle class was weaker and szlachta (nobility) culture together with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth political system (Golden Liberty) were in deep crisis.
Professor of Law at University of Olomouc, leading figure of Enlightenment in the Habsburg monarchy: Montesquieu: 1689–1755: French: Political thinker. Famous for his articulation of the theory of separation of powers, taken for granted in modern discussions of government and implemented in many constitutions all over the world.
Greeson, Jennifer "American Enlightenment: The New World and Modern Western Thought." American Literary History (2013) online Israel, Jonathan A Revolution of the Mind – Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy (2009) Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-14200-9
Modern history – After the post-classical era Early modern period – The chronological limits of this period are open to debate. It emerges from the Late Middle Ages (c. 1500), demarcated by historians as beginning with the fall of Constantinople in 1453, in forms such as the Italian Renaissance in the West, the Ming dynasty in the East, and ...
Modern-day versions of the traditional salon (some with a literary focus, and others exploring other disciplines in the arts and sciences) are held throughout the world, in private homes and public venues. [1] Sally Quinn and her husband Ben Bradlee hosted influential salons in Washington DC from the 1970s until the 2000s. "An invitation to the ...
Carl Friedrich Gauss Charles Sanders Peirce Dmitri Mendeleev Hermann Weyl Humphry Davy James Watt Jules Verne Ludwig Boltzmann Max Born Max Planck Mikhail Lomonosov Neil Armstrong Thomas Jefferson Thomas Paine Voltaire Wolfgang Pauli This is a partial list of people who have been categorized as Deists, the belief in a deity based on natural religion only, or belief in religious truths ...
Modernity, a topic in the humanities and social sciences, is both a historical period (the modern era) and the ensemble of particular socio-cultural norms, attitudes and practices that arose in the wake of the Renaissance—in the Age of Reason of 17th-century thought and the 18th-century Enlightenment.
Hermes o Logios, Greek literary magazine of the 18th and 19th century.. The Modern Greek Enlightenment (also known as the Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment; [1] Greek: Διαφωτισμός, Diafotismós / Νεοελληνικός Διαφωτισμός, Neoellinikós Diafotismós) was the Greek expression of the Age of Enlightenment, characterized by an intellectual and philosophical movement ...