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    The Enlightenment

    Also known as the Age of Reason or Aufklärung, a term applied to the period of European intellectual history centered on the mid-18th century. The empiricist philosophy (see empiricism) of John Locke and scientific optimism following Isaac Newton's Principia provided the confidence to deem reason supreme in all departments of intellectual enquiry.


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