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Parent topics
- history [r]: Study of past human events based on written documents. [e]
- philosophy [r]: The study of the meaning and justification of beliefs about the most general, or universal, aspects of things. [e]
Subtopics
Countries
- Scottish Enlightenment [r]: A period in 18th century Scotland characterized by a great outpouring of intellectual and scientific accomplishments. [e]
People
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy [r]: (1789 – 1857) prominent French mathematician, one of the pioneers of rigor in mathematics and complex analysis. [e]
- Benjamin Franklin [r]: 1706-1790, American statesman and scientist, based in Philadelphia. [e]
- Joseph II [r]: (1741–1790), Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Hapsburg (Austrian) territories who was the arch-embodiment of the Enlightenment spirit of the later 18th-century reforming monarchs. [e]
- Isaac Newton [r]: (1642–1727) English physicist and mathematician, best known for his elucidation of the universal theory of gravitation and his development of calculus. [e]
- Thomas Paine [r]: (1737-1809) English writer, intellectual and revolutionary whose works were influential during the Enlightenment in the United States and Europe. [e]
- Voltaire [r]: The pen-name of François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), a French writer and philosopher, who was one of the leading figures of The Enlightenment. [e]
Ideas
- Atheism [r]: The belief that there is no God, or there are no gods; on a popular usage, the mere lack of any belief in any God or gods also qualifies as atheism, though philosophers more often call this agnosticism. [e]
- Evangelicalism [r]: A historically recent collection of religious beliefs, practices, and traditions typified by an emphasis on evangelism, and by what adherents call a "personal experience" of conversion. [e]
- Liberalism [r]: Economic and political doctrine advocating free enterprise, free competition and free will. [e]
- Panentheism [r]: The theological position that God is immanent within the Universe, but also transcends it. [e]
- Unitarianism [r]: A theology of God which insists that there is only one divine person or the religious denomination more properly known as Unitarian Universalism. [e]
