Click here to print. Terms: Age of Enlightenment, cameralism, Candide, Charter of Nobility, checks and balances, deism, Edict of Tolerance, Emile, Encyclopédie, enlightened absolutism, general will, mesmerism, noble savage, oligarchy, philosophes, physiocrats, Pugachev Rebellion, rationalism, Rechtsstaat, relativism, skepticism, The Social Contract, The Spirit of the Laws, Voltaire.