The Age of Enlightenment: A History From Beginning to End: Chapter 3

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'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment.” </p> <p class="body-text">—Immanuel Kant </p> <p class="body-text"> </p> <p class="body-text">There are some very significant differences between the beliefs of Enlightenment philosophers of different nations and different disciplines. Beliefs held by certain French philosophers can differ dramatically from the beliefs of certain British economists, Spanish political thinkers, Irish novelists, etc. An incredibly diverse group, those thinkers and writers we now refer to as philosophers of the Enlightenment defy any easy classification. Above all else, the Enlightenment is best understood as a "century of philosophy," and with this in mind it is instructive to take a brief look at the Enlightenment’s key thinkers, their lives, their writings, and their ideas. </p> <p class="body-text"> </p> <p class="body-text">The French – Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Condorcet </p> <p class="body-text"> </p> <p class="body-text">Paris has been a hub of intellectual, cultural and artistic movements for hundreds of years, and in the mid-eighteenth century, a specific group of Paris writers had a formative influence on the Enlightenment that gradually swept over Europe and beyond. 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