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What is the enlightenment?
Think of the Enlightenment in the broad sense of the word as the intellectual trend that includes all of the authors we have covered in the class. Focus on features that all or most of them share as the defining characteristics of the movement.

The authors are:
Nicholas Copernicus
Immanuel Kant
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rene Descartes
John Locke
Fransic Bacon
Giordano Bruno
Alexander Pope
Thomas Hobbes
Johann Gottfried von Herder
Marquis de Condorcet