Yale political scientist Ian Shapiro admires Tom Paine, the English-born American revolutionary whose 1776 pamphlet “Common Sense” galvanized support for independence from Great Britain, whose ...

David Hume, the pre-eminent Enlightenment philosopher, was born in Edinburgh in 1711. There he lived for many years, and there he died, perhaps the most famous Scot in history. It was thus ...

Source: Wikimedia Commons/Johann Gottlieb Becker/Public Domain. In 1783, two years after the publication of his masterpiece, The Critique of Pure Reason, the 59-year-old Immanuel Kant could finally ...

Just recently, Shoshana Liessmann and Antje Herzog wrote about Immanuel Kant in honor of his 300 th birthday and explained how the celebrated “revolutionary thinker and one of the most prominent ...

The foundational principle of Enlightenment thinkers from Locke to Hume to Kant (not to mention their student Thomas Jefferson) was that the legitimate purpose of the state was to preserve individual ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Sophia Rosenfeld discussed the role that truth played in Enlightenment thinking and the development of early democracies. Author Sophia ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. A cultural polyglot, born in Asia and naturalized in the US, Lintao “LT” Lu shares his ...

The churches relationship to the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment is an entangled history. Margaret Jacobs (“The Enlightenment critique of Christianity,” in The Cambridge History of ...