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  2. List of intellectuals of the Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    In recent years, scholars have expanded the time span and global perspective of the Enlightenment by examining: (1) how European intellectuals did not work alone and other people helped spread and adapt Enlightenment ideas, (2) how Enlightenment ideas were "a response to cross-border interaction and global integration," and (3) how the ...

  4. Category:People of the Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    People of the Scottish Enlightenment (4 C, 110 P) Pages in category "People of the Age of Enlightenment" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.

  5. Category:Enlightenment philosophers - Wikipedia

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    Philosophers from the broad period in Western history known as the Age of Enlightenment Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total

  6. 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 ...

  7. List of deists - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. John Locke - Wikipedia

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    John Locke's portrait by Godfrey Kneller, National Portrait Gallery, London. John Locke (/ l ɒ k /; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704 ()) [13] was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".

  9. List of liberal theorists - Wikipedia

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson (United States, 1803–1882) was an American philosopher who argued that the basic principles of government were mutable, and that government is required only insofar as people are not self-governing. Proponent of Democracy, and of the idea that a democratic people must have a democratic ethics. Some literature: Self-Reliance