On Sunday, David Brooks discussed theories of the French and Scottish Enlightenments and their relevance to contemporary American politics. In his definitions, he lumped Edmund Burke with Scottish ...
David Hume, the pre-eminent Enlightenment philosopher, was born in Edinburgh in 1711. There he lived for many years, and there he died, perhaps the most famous Scot in history. It was thus ...
Just recently, Shoshana Liessmann and Antje Herzog wrote about Immanuel Kant in honor of his 300 th birthday and explained how the celebrated “revolutionary thinker and one of the most prominent ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As it turns out, The Enlightenment is the name given to The Thinker's plot to "reboot" human ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Sophia Rosenfeld discussed the role that truth played in Enlightenment thinking and the development of early democracies. Author Sophia ...