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

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

As I wrote at the time: His approach is deeply Manichaean and almost messianic: “Only with the advent of Enlightenment ...

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 ...

King makes clear that, as in our own time, mid-18th-century England was mired in religious tensions, poverty, war and disease, even as the era eventually became known ... who were,” King writes.

The Enlightenment Era: The blindfold took on its modern symbolism during the Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries. Thinkers like John Locke, Voltaire, and Montesquieu argued that justice ...

Tribal or racial attitudes were virtually universal, no one group being much better or worse in this respect than any other, and for good reason, given the conditions of life before the modern era ...

Locke considered the concept of the ‘self’ and developed ... It is a kink of history that in the lead up to and during the immediate post-colonial era, the Sri Lankan leadership, through the Ceylon ...

Many Americans living today remember the era of Senator Joseph McCarthy and ... or American students—have read the work of John Locke? The term conservative, in its political sense, was coined ...