More people were also becoming critical of warfare and torture. The French writer Voltaire (1694-1778) spoke out against these evils in his famous novel "Candide," which was published in 1759.

The Enlightenment is the 600-pound gorilla in the room of modern economic growth that nobody has mentioned so far. ... For Joel Mokyr, what people believe matters, ...

Enlightenment Now has prompted a lot of criticism, some of it incisive and some merely vitriolic. These critiques have come from generalist critics as well as people who study the Enlightenment ...

Long ago, before the Enlightenment, people cowered before governments and speech laws. The Enlightenment offered an alternative, but it is one that must continually be affirmed: by public actions ...

The foundational principle of Enlightenment thinkers from Locke to Hume to Kant ... Trump Grants Clemency to 26 People, Including Former Gang Leader. Springsteen, ...

Enlightenment, the ultimate form of connection with the divine, and of course, inner peace, is hard to achieve. Only a select few are able to achieve enlightenment, leave their desires of the ...

The Enlightenment, Richard Whatmore contends in this book, is just such an idea. ... It was hoped trade might unify people, countries and colonies, in the mode of Adam Smith.