The Enlightenment provides a touchstone for our understanding of modern history and, not least, for our sense of the current moment. More than two centuries ago, a shift in outlook sought to throw off ...
Although the Enlightenment revolutionized human thought and transformed the world, it failed to produce a coherent theory of knowledge. The central reason is that the modernist systems of science and ...
Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Mary O'Grady and Dan Henninger. Images: Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly No one appreciated the power of capitalism more than ...
The Enlightenment. By Ritchie Robertson.Allen Lane; 1,008 pages; £40. To be published in America by Harper in February; $45. IN SEPTEMBER THE University of Edinburgh expunged the name of David Hume ...
The Englightenment is celebrated in the West as an age of progress. It was also an age that cemented some of the worst human traits ...
In our media-saturated world, it can feel hard to hear the sound of your own voice and to sit in the stillness of your own thoughts. This modern phenomenon can leave us bound up in the thoughts and ...
A lot of my writing focuses on enlightenment and / or self-actualization as a psychological goal. Part of this is a result of the existential belief that enlightenment / self-actualization is the goal ...
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