On Sunday, David Brooks discussed theories of the French and Scottish Enlightenments and their relevance to contemporary American politics. In his definitions, he lumped Edmund Burke with Scottish ...
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 ...
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, ...
It’s a bad time to be one of the 18th-century’s greatest thinkers. In 2020, Edinburgh University renamed Hume Tower on its central campus because of Scottish philosopher David Hume’s white supremacist ...
The Enlightenment provided a philosophical framework for challenging British authority, emphasizing reason, individual liberty, and natural rights. Inspired by thinkers like England’s John Locke, it ...