The Englightenment is celebrated in the West as an age of progress. It was also an age that cemented some of the worst human traits ...

Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations," published in 1776, advocated for a free market economy driven by competition and self-interest. Smith argued against mercantilism and government intervention, ...

Just recently, Shoshana Liessmann and Antje Herzog wrote about Immanuel Kant in honor of his 300 th birthday and explained how the celebrated “revolutionary thinker and one of the most prominent ...

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 ...

The Buddha, a revered spiritual figure, once proclaimed that enlightenment is the end of suffering. This profound statement has been a source of intrigue and contemplation for many, leading to many ...

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 ...

The academic left did not critique the Enlightenment. It declared it morally tainted and beyond repair. That declaration has become ritualized. It is repeated often enough to feel settled. It is ...

The churches relationship to the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment is an entangled history. Margaret Jacobs (“The Enlightenment critique of Christianity,” in The Cambridge History of ...