فلسفة عصر التنوير في فرنسا و دورها في تطور الفكر الاستعماري

Abstract EN

This research aims at the philosophy of lights was a pivotal moment in the development of human thought as the liberator of the human mind of any tutelage.

This emancipation produced ideological documents of European colonialism during the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century.

European countries were convinced that they bore the highest human values, I thought she had the right to carry her civilization to those who were less civilized than it, and the former French philosophers in the likes of Montesquieu and Rousseau.

Thus, from the philosophy of the lights, the colonial movement was born.