The Enlightenment, along with its representative figures like David Hume (1711–1776), is interwoven with the legacies of colonisation, of forced dispossession, of slavery and slave trading, and of the ...

What is Enlightenment? Tomes have been dedicated to answering this eternal question. Even the title of a modern magazine: What is Enlightenment? The search for this exalted state has been the “holy ...

Dr. Bell is a professor of history at Princeton. Will artificial intelligence bring about an intellectual revolution as profound as the Enlightenment? Enthusiasts like to make this claim, and even use ...

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 ...

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 ...

Enlightenment is the ultimate goal of human life. It means to bring in the light of the truth. Why do we need to be enlightened? Because we are living in the darkness of ignorance. We believe in lies, ...

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 ...