Answer: The Enlightenment as a cultural movement.
Step-by-step explanation:
The wave of Enlightenment swept across the European continent during the seventeenth century, spread to the American colonies, and intensified during the eighteenth century. All the great thinkers of the Enlightenment have several elements in common. They primarily aspired to freedom in every sense, to the freedom of man of thought and knowledge. They criticized superstition and tyranny. The Enlightenment was considered an elite part of society. They encouraged the spread of knowledge and thoughts that they considered to be the greatest human virtues.