Aufklärungn.
/ˈaʊfklɛːrʊŋ/ Enlightenment (sense 2), illuminism; the name given to a European intellectual movement in the 18th cent. laying claim to extraordinary intellectual illumination and enlightenment.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > rationalism > [noun] > philosophy of the Enlightenment
illuminatism1798
illuminism1798
Aufklärung1842
illumination1881
enlightenment1893
1842 J. S. Mill Let. 22 Aug. in Wks. (1963) XIII. 543 I hope to hear from yourself somewhat more about the Berlinische Aufklärung from personal knowledge.
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) II. viii. ix. 99 In that age of professed Illuminism, in the times of Voltaire and Diderot, when universal Aufklärung was to banish every mediæval phantasm.
1865 J. H. Stirling Secret of Hegel I. p. xix Those remnants of the Aufklärung, of Eighteenth Century Illumination, which still exist among us.
1865 J. H. Stirling Secret of Hegel I. p. xxii The one principle of the Aufklärung, its single outcome—the Right of Private Judgment.
1933 J. Baillie And Life Everlasting (1934) viii. 259 Humanism had its real fruitage in the Aufklärung.
Derivatives
ˈAufklärer n. plural the members of this movement.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > rationalism > [noun] > philosophy of the Enlightenment > adherent of
illuminator1777
Illuminé1794
Aufklärer1801
illuminist1840
illuminatist1851
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > collectively > claiming enlightenment
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illuminati1816
1801 H. C. Robinson in E. J. Morley Crabb Robinson in Germany 1800–1805 (1929) 49 Till the Aufklärer or Enlighteners—contrived to draw to themselves the larger body.
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