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 ...

For Immanuel Kant, the central theme of the Enlightenment—that great 18th century movement that emphasized the power of reason—was Sapere aude. This is usually translated as "Dare to know" or, more ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As it turns out, The Enlightenment is the name given to The Thinker's plot to "reboot" human ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professor Hadley Arkes talked about the enlightenment ideas that contributed to the concept that power should be derived from the consent of the ...

Yoram Hazony offers a corrective to blind faith in reason as the solution to our political differences. But he goes further than he needs to in arguing that the U.S. Constitution isn’t a product of ...