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 ...

In an exclusive extract from his book, Roy Porter asks what is the enlightenment and begins to assess its achievement. What was the Enlightenment? Just over two hundred years ago, the German ...

Peter Harrison is an Australian Laureate Fellow and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland. His most recent books are The Territories of Science and ...

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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 ...

The many anti-globalist politicians, parties, and movements roiling the politics of Western liberal democracies can be understood in many ways. But the most fruitful may be to view them as the latest ...

It would probably come as a surprise to most readers in Europe and America that the Enlightenment spread all the way to Greece in the eighteenth century and spawned revolutionary movements in support ...

In our media-saturated world, it can feel hard to hear the sound of your own voice and to sit in the stillness of your own thoughts. This modern phenomenon can leave us bound up in the thoughts and ...

Low self-esteem can quietly block interest in enlightenment. Awakening isn’t about being “good enough,” but access, practice, ...