Aufklärung

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In The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte, the historian Frederick C. Beiser describes the Illuminati as “a secret society devoted to the cause of political reform and Aufklärung”— the German Enlightenment.

From Slate

In The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy From Kant to Fichte, the historian Frederick C. Beiser describes the Illuminati as “a secret society devoted to the cause of political reform and Aufklärung”— the German Enlightenment.

From Slate

They declare it to be a survival from the exploded metaphysics of the much-abused Aufklärung of last century.

From Project Gutenberg

The issue was brought before the court in July when a Berlin judge suspended proceedings against Werner Grossmann, Wolf's successor as chief of the Hauptverwaltung Aufklarung, the foreign-intelligence department of the Stasi secret police.

From Time Magazine Archive

In fact Mr. Pater’s young hero is the precursor of the Aufklärung of p. 54the last century, the German precursor of Herder and Lessing and Goethe himself, and finds the forms of art ready to his hand without any national spirit to fill them or make them vital and responsive. 

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