Kant goes on to advance free speech, “the freedom to use reason publicly in all matters”, as the prerequisite of progress and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World Roy Porter Allen Lane £25, pp752 Buy it at BOL We are still living in the aftermath of the Enlightenment and still pursuing the implications ...

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 ...

In Anthony Pagden’s sweeping new study, the Enlightenment constitutes a collective intellectual journey away from God toward a new understanding of man. His account of this journey is bookended by ...

For many, the idea of an Irish Enlightenment is a contradiction in terms. The Irish, as stereotype had it, were dreamers of dreams, mystical poets and music makers, inventors of myth and magic, but ...

The Enlightenment. By Ritchie Robertson.Allen Lane; 1,008 pages; £40. To be published in America by Harper in February; $45. IN SEPTEMBER THE University of Edinburgh expunged the name of David Hume ...