Age of Enlightenment
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The Enlightenment or The Age of Enlightenment was an era that occurred following the Renaissance, and describes the period when Western philosophy switched to advocating reason as a primary source of authority.
Some people sort of missed out on this period.
[edit] Notable Enlightenment philosophers
- Francis Bacon
- John Locke
- Baruch Spinoza
- Thomas Jefferson
- Voltaire
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