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 ...

Throughout history, every era has had a dominant philosophy that shaped how people saw the world and each other. Medieval man couldn't imagine the world outside the church's authority, while ...

The ever growing gap between the socio-economic status of the political class-cum-corporate titans and the average Nigerian makes it a compelling need for the civil society to take up the gauntlet of ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Humanities Professor Andrew Curran discussed the life of French enlightenment thinker Denis Diderot and the writing of the the Encyclopédie, written ...

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 ...

Most people would agree that progress is a good thing, and few would deny that there has been extraordinary progress over the course of human history, or that human existence has improved in ...

A lot of people are selling Enlightenment these days. After the Brexit vote and the election of President Trump, David Brooks published a paean to the “Enlightenment project,” declaring it under ...