Wisdom gives us a better understanding of how to handle externalities. But, enlightenment gives us a better understanding of ...

The intellectual path from Ancient Greece to modernity is littered with the path of numerous philosophers, movements, and ...

Kant goes on to advance free speech, “the freedom to use reason publicly in all matters”, as the prerequisite of progress and enlightenment, and praises his king, Frederick the Great, “a shining ...

Wherever we look today in academia, scholars are rushing to defend the Enlightenment ideas of political and individual liberty, human rights, faith in scientific reason, secularism, and the freedom of ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Just over two hundred years ago, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote an essay entitled 'Was ist Aufklärung?' ('What is Enlightenment?'). For Kant, Enlightenment was mankind's final coming of ...

The Renaissance is conventionally dated from the 14th to the 17th centuries, but the French term “Renaissance” was coined in the 19th. The major events of the “Scientific Revolution” are usually ...

Now is the best time to be alive claims this triumphalist defence of scientific rationality – if it matters, we’ll solve it How do you write a manifesto for something that is already established? This ...

Abraham Lincoln was a classic Enlightenment man. President Trump is an anti-Enlightenment man.Credit...Stephen Crowley/The New York Times Being around a college classroom can really expand your ...