Disciplines: Latin, Philosophy
Also known as: Age of Enlightenment, Age of Reason
The highly-influential intellectual movement in Europe during the 1700s that emphasized reason as the primary guide for humans in the pursuit of knowledge.
John Locke, Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Baruch Spinoza, Voltaire are among the major thinkers of the Enlightenment.