The Enlightenment of the long 18th century was an era of awesome intellectual and cultural transformation. My Enlightenment Vision flowchart [pdf] is pitched at a high level of abstraction, showing schematically how the philosophical revolution of the 17th century led to the 18th-century revolutions in science, technology, politics, and economics — which in turn led to the dramatic increase in health, wealth, freedom, and goods in the 19th century.
![](https://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HicksS-Enlightenment-Vision-flowchart-full.jpg)
To put it another way, the chronology shows how the ideas played out as philosophy, then as an intellectual movement, then as activism, then as the working technology of culture.
I use the chart in my classes and published a version of it in my 2004 Explaining Postmodernism. It’s here as a PDF and as an Excel file, in case you’d like to adapt it for your own purposes.
[This is an excerpt from Stephen Hicks’s Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Scholargy Publishing, 2004, 2011), available it Amazon.com. Also this audiobook edition:
I had previously bookmarked your Intellectual History page, but when I went there just now using 2 different browsers, all the post hyperlinks take me to empty pages or 404 errors.
It is here, John: https://www.stephenhicks.org/intellectual-history/ .
Thanks for letting me know.