those aspect of the individuals self-concept that are derived from the social categories to which he or she percives him/herself as belonging to

earlier philosophers whose work influenced the enlightenment included bacon, descartes, locke, and spinoza. the major figures of the enlightenment included beccaria, diderot, hume, kant, montesquieu, rousseau, adam smith, and voltaire. it spread the ideas of the enlightenment across europe and beyond.

good question. i'll be looking into that. (this is a joke sir)

answer; self-serving bias;