Enlightenment Thought

"The public use of a man's reason must be free at all times, and this alone can bring enlightenment among men..."
Immanuel Kant

The Enlightenment was born some time in the late 17th century and is the ancestor of many, many ideologies. They are a broad ideology used to represent ideas of the Age of Enlightenment. Although their biggest contribution to the world was to give birth to Republicanism and Classical Liberalism, they also caused the separation of church and state and went against tyranny. Their ideas promoted individual liberty, progress, fraternity, and tolerance.

Enlightenment parented Classical Liberalism in the early 18th century, as the concept of the invisible hand and free-market ideas were created. Classical Liberalism was then the parent of most free-market ideologies.

Enlightenment also gave birth to the modern republican ideals who led to the creation of the Society of the Friends of the Constitution, from which originated Jacobinism, the predominant political force in the French revolution. Jacobinism later would form the basic blocks of Socialism.

Ingsoc, at some point, travelled back in time and had a child with Enlightenment. This created Illuminatism.

They also had a child with Agrarianism called Physiocracy, who would in turn become the parent of Georgism.

And, for last, at the start of the 20th century, they had a child with Austrian School, Neo-Enlightenment.

History

Variants

Kantianism

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Cartesianism

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Diderotianism

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Hegelianism

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Montesquieuanism

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Rousseauism

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Sadism

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Spinozism

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Voltairianism

Voltaire perceived the French bourgeoisie to be too small and ineffective, the aristocracy to be parasitic and corrupt, the commoners as ignorant and superstitious, and the Church as a static and oppressive force useful only on occasion as a counterbalance to the rapacity of kings, although all too often, even more rapacious itself. Voltaire distrusted democracy, which he saw as propagating the idiocy of the masses. Voltaire long thought only an enlightened monarch could bring about change, given the social structures of the time and the extremely high rates of illiteracy, and that it was in the king's rational interest to improve the education and welfare of his subjects. But his disappointments and disillusions with Frederick the Great changed his philosophy somewhat, and soon gave birth to one of his most enduring works, his novella Candide, ou l'Optimisme (Candide, or Optimism, 1759), which ends with a new conclusion of quietism: "It is up to us to cultivate our garden." His most polemical and ferocious attacks on intolerance and religious persecutions indeed began to appear a few years later. Candide was also burned, and Voltaire jokingly claimed the actual author was a certain 'Demad' in a letter, where he reaffirmed the main polemical stances of the text.

Harringtonism

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Louvertureanism

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Radishchevism

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Yun Chi-ho Thought

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Personality and Behaviour

Enlightenment within the comics is usually portrayed as a stereotypical enlightened thinker.

How to Draw

An Enlightenment wig is an encouraged accessory

Candle Design

Draw a ball with eyes
Draw a candle handle
Draw a candle which is glowing on the handle

And you're done

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Relationships

Illuminated

Classical Liberalism - My rightist son.
Jacobinism - My leftist son.
Republicanism - My centrist son. Good job defeating and replacing him!
Enlightened Absolutism - My monarchist son, and the only monarchy worth a damn.
Capitalism - My rightist grandson.
National Liberalism - My other rightist grandson.
Conservative Liberalism - Another rightist grandson that really appreciates Kant and his father.
Girondism - French Republican version of above.
Socialism - My leftist grandson.
Radicalism - My radical grandson that nowadays is a moderate!
Liberalism - My centrist grandson.
Social Liberalism - My center-left great-grandson.
Neoliberalism - My centrist great-great-grandson.
Neoconservatism - My hawkish great-grandson.
Kemalism - My Middle Eastern great-grandson.
Nationalism - Long live the national fraternity!
Progressivism - I like that you advocate for social progress just like I did back in my day.
Radical Centrism - The fact that you're an avid fan of him give me very good vibes about you.

Gray Area

Neo-Enlightenment - Listen, I like your dedication to my values and ideas but stop acting like you're the same as me.
Revolutionary Progressivism - Calm down a little buddy.
Illuminatism - Goddamn oligarch totalitarian, you're everything we set out to destroy. ~~W-W-Weishaupt?~~
State Liberalism - ...what the hell ARE you?! Progress is good but you're even more insane than him and that's saying something.
Traditionalism - You aren't that bad but you have to embrace more empiricism and rationalism instead of past dogmatism.
Conservatism - You need to stick less to tradition.
Classical Conservatism - Father of above, an old rival but you're more tolerable and reasonable than compared other anti-illuminists especially nowadays .
Paleoconservatism - American version of above, we both like the foundation of his country but he sometimes can become a reactard lolcow.
National Conservatism - I like that you embrace people's sovereignty and nation-state but you need to calm down sometimes.
Reactionary Liberalism, Reactionary Libertarianism, Hoppeanism & Korwinism - WTF? ~~Unless I can still work with them, plus Thermidorians are good.~~
Neoreactionaryism - I don't know what to think of you. You call yourself a reactionary, but you still support my children .
Feuillantism - Nice try but too tame and slavery is horrible.
Posadism - Destroying all old things with explosives around the globe for better future? Well... Good luck with that.

Left in the dark

Counter-Enlightenment - OW, you darkness, you dark, midnight, evil motherf***er, OW, dark ages, darkness! You're all darkness, you're f***ing delirious motherf***er, OW!
Reactionaryism - You're not getting rid of my ideas that easily.
Reactionary Modernism - WHAT, NO! WHY! Nooooo technology and reactionary thought are incompatible!!! ~~You also need to see the light in a literal way.~~
Feudalism - Lol feudalism is no more.
Mercantilism - Same for you except for your modern version which is my great-great-grandson?
Absolute Monarchism - One of my biggest enemies.
Frankfurt School - Oh come on! I am not a totalitarian!
Carlism - Bites the dust! ~~Oh wait...~~
Black Hundredism - Another one bites the dust! ~~Oh wait again...~~
Integralism - Get real, dude, your time is over.
- Every day the society of today gets worse for the average man, the closer you are to death. Cease peddling false light.
Ilminism - Illuminism, not Ilminism!
- Hey, it's not my fault that my name is Ilminism in English!