Spinoza revisited Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity1650-1750, by Jonathan I. Israel, Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-19-820608-9, £30.00 ...

Until Hume, philosophers had searched for metaphysical foundations supporting our ordinary experience, an omnipotent God or a transcendent reality outside our minds. But Hume undermined all that.

Enlightenment political philosophers were united in their embrace of the new science and their opposition to the old order, but many parted ways with Hobbes’ enlightened absolutism, pushing instead ...

The nature of modern-day scientific research can be traced back to proto-Enlightenment philosophers like Descartes, who died in 1650. Just as Descartes—who coined the iconic phrase cogito, ...

In “The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman,” Andrew Janiak, a professor of philosophy at Duke University, challenges the way Du Châtelet is remembered today.

Hegel’s farrago soon degenerated into “the philosophers’ Enlightenment,” as Ferrone calls it: a set of commonplaces about how Voltaire and the other French philosophes inspired the French revolution—a ...

In “The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman,” Andrew Janiak, a professor of philosophy at Duke University, challenges the way Du Châtelet is remembered today.

Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume is still a man for our times – Julian Baggini. By Julian Baggini. Comment. Published 17th Sep 2022, 04:55 BST.