When Principia was published, censorship or imprisonment for ideas disliked by the ch

The Enlightenment period came to an end in western Europe after the outbreak of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era revealed the costs of it's political program and the lack of commitment in those whose speech was more liberal than their actions.

Encyclopedie and the U.S. Constitution are representative documents of the Age of Reason. The leaders of enlightenment began to secure new freedoms. They sought to impose an ordered freedom on political and social institutions. The promoters of science and religious tolerance were prepared to attack in print the attitudes and beliefs that stood in the way of tolerance, freedom, and rationality. As aggressive intellectuals and reporters, they earned the nickname "philosophes" meaning philosopher.

Representative of the Enlightenment are such thinkers as Voltaire, J.J. Rosseau, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Swift, Hume, Kant, G.E. Lessing, Bec

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