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Article: Enlightenment, The
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Enlightenment, The
In 1784 the German philosopher Immanuel Kant gave a simple answer to the difficult question "What is enlightenment?" He defined this intellectual movement as man's emergence from his self-imposed tutelage. This emancipatory view of the Enlightenment was widely shared, as was his interest in education as shown in his lectures on the subject,
Ueber Paedagogik
(Lectures on pedagogy). Writers as divergent as John Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Jean-JacquesRousseau, David Hume, Denis Diderot, and Benjamin Franklin all saw themselves as educators of mankind. Their common goal was greater freedom: freedom from arbitrary power, freedom of speech, freedom of trade, and freedom ...
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Article: John Locke
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...John Locke , 1632-1704, English ... empiricism. Locke summed up the Enlightenment in his belief in the middle ... J. W. Gough, ed., John Locke's Political Philosophy ... 1977); R. W. Grant, John Locke's Liberalism (1987 ...
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