For more than two hundred years, stretching back into the eighteenth century, there were people, inspired by the science and philosophy of the Enlightenment, who believed in progress, in the ...

[iii] The intellectual atmosphere in Halle was nevertheless fraught between Enlightenment philosophers who believed in science, reason and knowledge and the theologians who advocated asceticism and ...

Kant’s work is considered to be the pinnacle of Enlightenment philosophy. The philosopher was born in Königsberg, now Kaliningrad, in 1724. His maxim that we should use our reason seems more relevant ...

I only know of her thanks to a new biography: The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman by Andrew Janiak, a professor of philosophy at Duke University in the US. It’s a fascinating story ...

The European Enlightenment of the eighteenth century is conventionally taken to be the period in which the disciplines of philosophy, history, economics and anthropology, and other social sciences ...

working on the reception of the Enlightenment in Scandinavia and the Baltic area between 1740 and 1810. Our research focuses on how scientific knowledge and radical philosophy affected identities, ...