Lumières (English spelling)

Japanese: lumières(英語表記)lumieres
Lumières (English spelling)

...the general term for an ideological movement that was widespread in Western Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries with the rise of the modern citizen class and was a driving force in the formation of civil society. The English name above, the German Aufklärung, and the French lumières all mean light or to illuminate with light. It is thought that the goal of this movement was to fully trust and appeal to the innate "reason" of humans as the "light of nature," and to work toward "human beings escaping from their own state of immaturity, for which they are indebted," as Kant put it, by each person daring to exercise their own power of reason, thereby realizing a community of rational and independent individuals.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "lumières" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…17世紀,18世紀の西欧で近代市民階層の台頭にともなって広くおこなわれ,市民社会形成の推進力となった思想運動の総称。上記の英語名も,ドイツ語のAufklärung,フランス語のlumièresも,いずれも光ないし光によって明るくすることを意味する。〈自然の光〉としての人間生得の〈理性〉に全面的に信頼し訴え,各人があえてみずから理性の力を行使することによって,カントの言い方によれば,〈人間がみずからに負い目ある未成熟状態から脱すること〉へと働きかけ,こうして,理性的自立的な人格の共同体の実現を目指すことにその目標はあったと考えられる。…

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