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A broad intellectual and cultural movement that swept across Europe and the United States. Also known as the Age of Reason.

The idea that reason is the primary source of knowledge and justification.

The theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience.

The doctrine that every event, including human action, is causally determined by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences.

The philosophical view that all events are ultimately fixed and inevitable.

The capacity of rational individuals to make choices concerning their own lives.

The belief that God exists and created the world, but does not intervene in human affairs.

The view that moral judgments are true or false only relative to some particular standpoint (for instance, that of a culture or a historical period) and that no standpoint is uniquely privileged over all others.

The study of the general and fundamental nature of reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.