Enlightenment
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Encyclopedists
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05418a.htm
Article from the Catholic Encyclopedia by C.A. Dubray. Discusses the group of philosophers who contributed to the Encyclopdie.
French Deism
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/deismfre.htm
Brief historical survey of the development of Deism in the French Enlightenment. From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Wikipedia: The Enlightenment
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enlightenment
Short article on the thought of this period, and its legacy.
Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scottish-18th/
Survey of Scottish Enlightenment philosophers, including Francis Hutcheson, Henry Home (Lord Kames), and George Campbell; by Alexander Broadie. From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
18th Century German Philosophy Prior to Kant
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/18thGerman-preKant/
Survey of work of, among others, Christian Thomasius and Christian Wolff; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Brigitte Sassen.
Active Powers
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/a/activepo.htm
Brief article from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on this term as used in the Scottish "common sense" philosophy.