The Enlightenment was the 17th–18th century European intellectual movement that emphasized reason, empiricism, individual rights, and skepticism toward traditional authority. It laid the foundations of modern science, liberalism, and secular humanism.
Foundational intellectual movement of modernity; produced the philosophical basis for democracy, science, and human rights.
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