For more than two hundred years, stretching back into the eighteenth century, there were people, inspired by the science and philosophy of the Enlightenment, who believed in progress, in the ...

They rightly say that this was not true of the Enlightenment, an age in which the public began again to look to philosophers as guides. Hume and Rousseau were walking (if conflicting) icons of the ...

One of the most remarkable historical Black German subjects was Ghanian Enlightenment philosopher, Nzima Antonius Wilhelm Amo Afer (c. 1703 to c. 1753), who, against the odds (his brother was enslaved ...

Kant’s system attempted to bridge rationalism and empiricism, the two dominant Enlightenment philosophies. Post-Kantian philosophers sought to establish a more solid system, believing Kant’s ...

Kant’s work is considered to be the pinnacle of Enlightenment philosophy. The philosopher was born in Königsberg, now Kaliningrad, in 1724. His maxim that we should use our reason seems more relevant ...

A specialist on the political philosophy of the Enlightenment period, he is the author of Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue (Cambridge, 2009) and Love's Enlightenment: Rethinking Charity in ...

The values that once defined Enlightenment — truth, expertise, and the rule of law — are now under siege. Populism’s loud ...

The philosopher was born in Königsberg 300 years ago. Kant’s work is considered to be the pinnacle of the philosophy of the Enlightenment. His maxim that we should use our own reason seems more ...