Of course, Smith and Rousseau don’t explain everything about Trumpism, but these two Enlightenment philosophers foresaw at least the appeal of his boastful wealth and his denigration of others ...

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.

Moreover, your claim that the Enlightenment philosophers provided “rationalizations of a new form of class oppression” is grotesquely one-sided and basically false.

Enlightenment philosophers are famous — or notorious — for championing rationality, so his title's deliberately arresting contrast between flesh and reason immediately reveals that Porter is, ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

Jusufovic gave Philosopher one run last December before sending the son of Zoustar for a long break. He’s then returned to the races with a vengeance, winning all three of his starts this time in, ...

The philosophy behind Trump’s Dark Enlightenment An English magus of anti-democratic neoreaction has become a touchstone for the alt-right Jonathan Derbyshire ...

“[W]oman was specifically made to please man,” wrote the preeminent Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1762. “[Man’s] merit lies in his power; he pleases simply because he ...