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Enlightenment, French siècle des Lumières (literally “century of the Enlightened”), German Aufklärung, a European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were synthesized into a worldview that gained wide assent in the West and that instigated revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and politics. Central to Enlightenment thought were the use and celebration of reason, the power by which humans understand the universe and improve their own condition. The goals of rational humanity were considered to be knowledge, freedom, and happiness.
A brief treatment of the Enlightenment follows. For full treatment, see Europe, history of: The Enlightenment.
Works Cited
"Enlightenment." Britannica Academic, Encyclopædia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2021. academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/Enlightenment/32680. Accessed 3 Jan. 2025.
The following LC classification schedule B1-B5802 provides an organizational scheme for material relating to philosophy.
Subclass B
B1-5802 Philosophy (General)
B69-99 General works
B108-5802 By period, Including individual philosophers and schools of philosophy
B108-708 Ancient
B720-765 Medieval
B770-785 Renaissance
B790-5802 Modern
B808-849 Special topics and schools of philosophy
B850-5739 By region or country
B5800-5802 By religion
Subclass BC
BC1-199 Logic
BC11-39 History
BC25-39 By period
BC60-99 General works
BC171-199 Special topics
Subclass BD
BD10-701 Speculative philosophy
BD10-41 General philosophical works
BD95-131 Metaphysics
BD143-237 Epistemology. Theory of knowledge
BD240-260 Methodology
BD300-450 Ontology, Including being, the soul, life, death
BD493-701 Cosmology, Including teleology, space and time, structure of matter,