I’m going to call it the “Endarkenment” because it rises, like an accusing specter, out of the corpse of the fallen Enlightenment ... We look in vain in the many pages of John Stuart Mill for a moment ...

The term "Enlightenment," rooted in an intellectual skepticism to traditional beliefs and dogmas, denotes an "illumined" contrast to the supposed dark and superstitious character of the Middle Ages.

Wiszowaty’s books were part of John Locke’s personal library and the philosopher shared the Polish thinker’s view on the relationship between faith and reason. During the Enlightenment era, Voltaire ...

One important philosophical influence on the Founders, the Enlightenment liberalism stemming from the writings of John Locke ... Leading Founding-era proponents of the First Amendment understood ...

King makes clear that, as in our own time, mid-18th-century England was mired in religious tensions, poverty, war and disease ...

A particularly noteworthy example is your statement that my “critique of postmodernism is used to sanction an uncritical defense of the Enlightenment ... philosopher John Dewey, into the ...

Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment brings together leading scholars in cultural history, the history of ideas and global politics in order to reassess the complexity of cosmopolitanism during the ...

Châtelet’s scientific contributions were appreciated by some, then forgotten by all. But redeeming her as a mind shouldn’t ...

Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 67, Issue. 3, p. 589. Lloyd, Henry Martyn 2018. The French Enlightenment attempts to create a philosophy without reason: the case of Diderot and the effect of ...

In their spatial arrangement, Gonzales-Day seems to be showing the statesmen of that era magnetically ... that the Enlightenment, with its freedom thinkers from John Locke to Mary Wollstonecraft ...

The Enlightenment Era: The blindfold took on its modern symbolism during the Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries.