enlightenment

the enlightenment was a progressive eventevent
the event.

deleuze gave a lecture on the event in 1987, something which interested him back in difference and repetition and logic of sense. In Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts, James Will...
of rationalityrationality
The Twelve Virtues of Rationality:


curiosity, relinquishment, lightness, evenness, argument, empiricism, simplicity, humility, perfectionism, precision, scholarship, and the void.

and intelligenceintelligence
intelligence is related to rationality and wisdom somehow. maybe one definition is, "deducing new truths from old truths in pursuit of a goal" according to steven pinker and william j...
and Humanism in Europe driven by

  • descartesdescartes
    descartes was a french philosopher and mathematician. he's not technically a part of skeptic but he has influences of its thought.
  • leibnizleibniz
    leibniz was a philosopher who also did work in mathematics and physics. he worked on monads. His motto is calculemus (latin for let us calculate). he believed in the principle of sufficient...
  • spinozaspinoza
    baruch1 spinoza (1632-1677) was a philosopher who wrote tractatus theologico-politicus and ethica. because he didn't believe in the traditional religion of his time, he was cast out of amsterda...
  • humehume
    david hume was a philosopher of skeptic who was interested in "Logics, Morals, Criticism, and Politics," their connection to human nature. He wanted to bring the approach of empiricism to t...
  • kantkant
    immanuel kant (1724 - 1804) was a philosopher from prussia. he was christian. he was inspired by hume. he wrote critique of pure reason, Critique of Practical Reason.

    For Kant, there i...