Abstract
This study offers a cultural history based on computational analyses of eighteen Dutch translations of philosophical texts from the Dutch Early Enlightenment (1640-1720). It foregrounds the ideological motives, social conditions, and language-philosophical context of four Dutch translators of philosophers Descartes, Hobbes, and Spinoza: Glazemaker, Balling, Van Berkel en Blankaart. The main conclusion is that these translators were pro-active brokers of Enlightened ideas, which they used as arguments in various discussions in the vernacular. They adjusted their language flexibly, embracing language reform as a means to enable the appropriation of the New Philosophy in the fundamental debates of their age.