Renowned philosophers who do engage with criticism of the Enlightenment, such as Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor, do not catch the imagination of a wide public in the way Foucault did 40 years ...

For instance, several of the major Enlightenment philosophers — including Hume, Voltaire and Kant — developed elaborate justifications for anti-Semitic views.

Something quite extraordinary happened in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries: the diversified intellectual explosion called the Enlightenment. Philosophers, natural scientists (the divide ...

The Philosophers’ Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding, Robert Zaretsky and John T. Scott, Yale University Press, 247 pages ...

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

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

Enlightenment philosophers recognized that the crown, guild, church and village sometimes acted as rent-seekers stripping away the rewards for work, thrift and innovation, ...

In fact, he argues, this view of human nature is an invention of modernity, handed down to us by influential Enlightenment philosophers like Adam Smith, Machiavelli, and Thomas Hobbes.

Voltaire: Enlightenment Philosopher and Lottery Scammer The French government was trying to raise money by running a bond lottery, but a group of intellectuals had other ideas ...

Something quite extraordinary happened in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries: the diversified intellectual explosion called the Enlightenment.Philosophers, natural scientists (the divide ...