Directory of Enlightenment Resources

Rationalistic movement in eighteenth-century Europe, generally held to have ended with the French Revolution.

Subcategories

18th Century German Philosophy Prior to Kant

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/18thGerman-preKant/
Survey of work of, among others, Christian Thomasius and Christian Wolff; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Brigitte Sassen.
Active Powers

http://www.iep.utm.edu/activepo/
Brief article from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on this term as used in the Scottish "common sense" philosophy.
Encyclopedists

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05418a.htm
Article from the Catholic Encyclopedia by C.A. Dubray. Discusses the group of philosophers who contributed to the Encyclopédie.
French Deism

http://www.iep.utm.edu/deismfre/
Brief historical survey of the development of Deism in the French Enlightenment. From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scottish-18th/
Survey of Scottish Enlightenment philosophers, including Francis Hutcheson, Henry Home (Lord Kames), and George Campbell; by Alexander Broadie. From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Wikipedia: Age of Enlightenment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment
Short article on the thought of this period, and its legacy.

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