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  2. Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    The use of Enlightenment ideas was a "response to a specific situation in Korea in the 1890s, and not a belated answer to Voltaire." [2] India

  3. List of intellectuals of the Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    The Age of Enlightenment was a broad philosophical movement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The traditional theological-political system that placed Scripture at the center, with religious authorities and monarchies claiming and enforcing their power by divine right, was challenged and overturned in the realm of ideas.

  4. American Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    The American Enlightenment was a period of intellectual and philosophical fervor in the ... Enlightenment ideas were introduced to the colonists and diffused through ...

  5. Thomas Paine - Wikipedia

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    His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era ideals of human rights. [5] Paine was born in Thetford, Norfolk, and immigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 with the help of Benjamin Franklin, arriving just in time to participate in the American Revolution.

  6. Science in the Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    Table of astronomy, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. The history of science during the Age of Enlightenment traces developments in science and technology during the Age of Reason, when Enlightenment ideas and ideals were being disseminated across Europe and North America.

  7. Philosophes - Wikipedia

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    Between 1740 and 1789, the Enlightenment acquired its name and, despite heated conflicts between the philosophes and state and religious authorities, gained support in the highest reaches of government. Although philosophe is a French word, the Enlightenment was distinctly cosmopolitan; philosophes could be found from Philadelphia to Saint ...

  8. Education in the Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    The Enlightenment thinkers wanted the educational system to be modernized and play a more central role in the transmission of those ideas and ideals. The development of educational systems in Europe continued throughout the period of the Enlightenment and into the French Revolution .

  9. Russian Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    The ideas of the Russian Enlightenment were first espoused by the "learned druzhina" of Peter the Great.It is the spirit which animates the sermons of Feofan Prokopovich, the satires of Antiokh Kantemir, and the historiography of Vasily Tatishchev.