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| Voltaire | 1694–1778 | 
 politics | religion, expression | The Age of Louis XIV, Candide | 
David | Hume 1711–1776
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 social | empiricist, skeptic | Treatise of Human Nature | 
Jean-Jacques | Rousseau 1712–1778
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politics | social contract | The Social Contract, Discourse on Inequality, Émile, or On Education |
| Denis | Diderot 1713–1784
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politics | materialist, atheist | The Encyclopédie |
| Claude Adrien | Helvétius 1715–1781
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politics | materialist, egalitarian | Essays on the Mind |
| Jean | d’Alembert 1717–1783
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physics | mechanics, music | Traité de dynamique |
| Baron | d’Holbach 1723–1789
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politics | materialist, atheist | The System of Nature |
| Adam | Smith 1723–1790
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economics | laissez faire | Wealth of Nations | 
Immanuel | Kant 1724–1804
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epistemology | ethics, aesthetics | Critique of Pure Reason | 
Edmund | Burke 1729–1797
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politics | conservatism | Reflections on the Revolution in France | 
Cesare | Beccaria 1738–1794
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politics | criminal justice | On Crimes and Punishments |
| Thomas | Jefferson 1743–1826
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politics | liberalism | Declaration of Independence |
| Jeremy | Bentham 1748–1832
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Politics | utilitarian, hedonism | Principles of Morals and Legislation |
| William | Godwin 1756-1836
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politics | utilitarian, anarchism | Enquiry Concerning Political Justice |
| Mary | Wollstonecraft 1759–1805
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politics | feminism | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
| Friedrich | Schiller 1759–1805
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epistemology | ethics, aesthetics | On the Aesthetic Education of Man |
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