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Enlightenment thinkers valued what ?

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Enlightenment thinkers valued reason and critical inquiry above tradition and superstition; they emphasized empirical science, individual liberty and natural rights, religious tolerance and secularism, progress through education and reform, and political arrangements based on consent (rule of law, social contract, separation of powers). Examples: Locke (natural rights, consent of the governed), Montesquieu (separation of powers), Voltaire (tolerance, free speech), Rousseau (general will), Kant (“Sapere aude” — dare to know).